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5 days ago · Lord Holland was a wit, without a particle of ill nature, and a man of learning, without a taint of pedantry. His apprehension of anything good was unfailing; nothing worth observing and remarking ever escaped him.
- "Bourne Upon Eagles’ Wings" June 2, 1974 – BYU Fireside. Given not long after a visit Elder Holland made to the Utah State Prison, this talk is about God’s justice and mercy and the different forms of spiritual bondage we sometimes bring upon ourselves.
- The Inconvenient Messiah" February 2, 1982 – BYU devotional. This talk explores the demands of discipleship and uses examples from the Savior’s life to encourage us to reject the adversary’s offer of “convenient Christianity.”
- "Within the Clasp of Your Arms" April 2, 1983 – general conference. In this talk, Elder Holland uses a powerful personal experience he had as a young father to illustrate the need for all fathers to stay close to their children.
- "If Your Testimony Is Not Strong, Lean on Mine" March 6, 1984 – Rick’s College devotional. In this talk, Elder Holland invites young adults who feel their testimonies are not yet secure to lean on his testimony until their own convictions become more certain.
Shortly before he died, Lord Holland, learning that Selwyn had called, remarked: “The next time Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up. If I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead,...
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century.
1 day ago · The Holland estate. The thick line denotes the extent of the estate in Kensington purchased by Lord Holland in 1768. Based on the Ordanance Survey of 1894–6. A survey undertaken in 1770 (fn. 41) shows that the extent of the Holland estate was 237 acres, including one nine-acre field on the Hammersmith side of the parish boundary.
Jun 6, 2020 · The famous Kingsgate follies on the eastern tip of Thanet – ‘ruined’ convents, chapels and castles constructed in the 1760s for Lord Holland, a disgraced politician – were exactly that, according to the poet Thomas Gray, who saw these ‘mouldering fanes’ as Holland’s judgment, or curse, on his disloyal friends.
Feb 25, 1996 · Holland is a Byron scholar, and absolutely seamless in commingling the fictional cosmology of a vardoulacha--a vampire, in Greek--with the known events of Byron’s life, down to the masterly use...
