"Newman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... though from the summit of a Mont Blanc of superiority. At any bold defier of the conventions and traditions of the Academy drawing-school, he shakes his head. The pre-Raphaelite heresy was a sore affliction to him. He looked upon Millais and Hunt as a Low-church bishop would regard Newman and Pusey. He prophesied that they would come to no good. He called them 'silly boys;' and he looks uneasily at the crowds who throng before this year's picture of the Huguenot Couple—not recovering his self-complacency until his eye catches his own favourite work, when he feels himself ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 - Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 • Various
... Bartholomew Nestora Francis Neville Jean Neville Michael Neville Ebenezer Newall Sucreason Newall William Neward Elisha Newbury Andrew Newcomb John Newcomb Andrew Newell Amos Newell Joseph Newell Nathaniel Newell Robert Newell Nicholas Newgal Joseph Newhall Joseph Newille Francis Newman Moses Newman Nathaniel Newman Samuel Newman Thomas Newman (4) Adam Newton (2) John Newton William Newton Adam Newtown William Newtown John Niester James Nigley Richard Nich Thomas Nicher Martin Nichets Richard Nicholas Allen Nichols George Nichols James Nichols John Nichols Richard Nichols Alexander ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge
... in a speaker's success. Gladstone described Cardinal Newman's manner in the pulpit as unsatisfactory if considered in its separate parts. "There was not much change in the inflection of his voice; action there was none; his sermons were read, and his eyes were always on his book; and all that, you will say, ...
— Successful Methods of Public Speaking • Grenville Kleiser
... any kind of men who want sons like themselves, it's our bankers: they have their banks to hand on, and they long to have nice banker babies. But it seems they are constantly begetting impossible infants. Cardinal Newman for instance: his bewildered father too was a banker. Fate takes a special pleasure in tripping these ...
— The Crow's Nest • Clarence Day, Jr.
... is one point which I notice in the toast, that I would like to say a word about—"May those who seek the blessings of its free institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose." I think there is a text that my friend Mr. Beecher,[7] on the left, or my friend Dr. Newman,[8] on the right, might well preach a long sermon upon. I shall say ...
— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various
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