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Boyology; Or, Boy Analysis (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 810
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Boyology; Or, Boy Analysis (Paperback)
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Loot Price R381
Discovery Miles 3 810
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1922 edition. Excerpt: ...conclusively that "storm and stress" and
conviction are close kin. "If there is no resistance to the great
expenditure of the new energy, then results a burst of life, fresh
consciousness and appreciation of truth, a personal hold on virtue,
joy and the sense of well being; but if there is no channel open
for its free expression, it wastes itself against unyielding and
undeveloped faculties, and is recognized by its pain accompaniment,
distress, unrest, anxiety, heat of passion, groping after
something, brooding, and self-condemnation. This stage of
adolescence is the period of most rapid physiological
readjustments, and consequently is characterized by great
instability."9 The wonderful narrative of the facts concerning the
Welsh Revival by the late W. T. Stead, who was at the time the
editor of the London Review of Reviews is significant. In it he
gave to the public for the first time the account of his own
conversion in 1859 at the age of eleven years. He tells how one
night in bed he was seized with an appalling sense of his own
sinfulness. He sobbed and cried in the darkness over his
wrong-doing. Then there came to him a passionate longing to escape
from condemnation and be forgiven. At last his mother overheard
him, took him into her arms, and told him comforting things about
the love of God, and how it was made manifest by Jesus Christ, who
had suffered in our stead, to save us from condemnation and make us
heirs of heaven. Mr. Stead says: "I have no remembrance of anything
beyond the soothing caress of my mother's words. When she left me
the terror had gone, and I felt sufficiently tranquil to go to
sleep." A year later when he was twelve, his experience at
Silcoates Hall, a private boarding school, is interesting, when a
half dozen of...
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Rarebooksclub.com
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2012 |
First published: |
July 2012 |
Authors: |
Henry William Gibson
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
56 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-150-87248-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-150-87248-9 |
Barcode: |
9781150872488 |
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