Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman For the Use of Schools

And thus I account for St. Paul's liking for heathen writers, or what we now call the classics, which is very remarkable. He, the Apostle of the 15 Gentiles, was learned in Gree...

Thus argues the great Athanasius, living in spirit with the saints departed, while full of labor and care here on earth. For the arguments on the other side, let us turn to a wr...

O my Fathers, my Brothers, had that revered Bishop so spoken then, who that had heard him but would have said that he spoke what could 10 not be? What! those few scattered worsh...

"But it proved far otherwise; for he was refreshed and restored. Forthwith, as soon as I could speak with him (and I could as soon as he was able, for I never left him, and we h...

Religious teaching itself affords us an illustration of our subject to a certain point. It 20 does not indeed seat itself merely in centers of the world; this is impossible from...

Now Saul "lacked this one thing." His character, indeed, is obscure, and we must be cautious while considering it; still, as Scripture is given us for our instruction, it is sur...

According to the above theory, Revealed Religion should be especially poetical--and it is so in fact. While its disclosures have an originality in them to engage the intellect,...

Here another great subject opens upon us, when I ought to be bringing these remarks to an end; I mean the endemic perennial fidget which possesses us about giving scandal; facts...

That charm lies, as I have said, in his habit and his power of throwing himself into the minds 10 of others, of imagining with exactness and with sympathy circumstances or scene...

But this era was a turning point in their history in another and more serious respect. In Sogdiana and Khorasan, they had become converts to the Mahometan faith. You will not 10...

It has come to be universally admitted that Cardinal Newman fulfills his own definition of a great author: "One whose aim is to give forth what he has within him; and from his v...

But Plato is not the only sage, nor the sight of him the only lesson to be learned in this wonderful suburb. It is the region and the realm of philosophy. Colleges were the inve...

Nothing is more certain than that some ideas are consistent with one another, and others 5 inconsistent; and, again, that every truth must be consistent with every other truth--...

It need not be denied that, during these years of wandering, we find in David's conduct instances of infirmity and inconsistency, and some things 10 which, without being clearly...

=92=: 6. (_a_) =Gallus.= (_b_) =Ovid.= (_a_) Governor of Egypt under Augustus; accused of crime and oppression, and banished. (_b_) A celebrated Roman poet, author of _Metamorph...

It is usual for historians to say, that the triumph of the South threw the Turks back again upon their northern solitudes; and this might easily be the case with some of the man...

So is it, too, with our moral being, a far higher 20 and diviner portion of our natural constitution; it begins with life, it ends with what is worse than the mere loss of life,...

1. We will notice _descriptive poetry_ first. 25 Empedocles wrote his physics in verse, and Oppian his history of animals. Neither were poets--the one was an historian of nature...

Basil and Gregory were both natives of Cappadocia, but here, again, under different 5 circumstances; Basil was born of a good family, and with Christian ancestors: Gregory was t...

However, the barbarian, when roused to action, 15 is a very different being from the barbarian at rest. "The Turk," says Mr. Thornton, "is usually placid, hypochondriac, and uni...