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To Rev. A. P. Stanley. Plan for Lectures

282. To W. Empson, Esq. Professorship. - Tour to Spain. -

Guelph and Ghibelin Controversy. - Lamennais

283. To Rev. T. Hill. Popery and Protestantism

284. To an Old Pupil. (D.) Roman Catholics and Oxford School 251

285. To Mr. Justice Coleridge. Oxford School. Bishop Selwyn 252

286. To Chevalier Bunsen. Advance of Life
Inaugural Lecture. - Introductory Lecture. -Intentions for the Fu-
Course on English History.-Terminal Lectures on Biog-

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296. To an Old Pupil. (K.) Influences of Oxford.
297. To Mr. Justice Coleridge. Stay in Oxford.

298. To Archdeacon Hare. Charge. Despondency

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THE

LIFE OF THOMAS ARNOLD, D. D.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION.

THOMAS ARNOLD, seventh child and youngest son of William and Martha Arnold, was born on June 13th, 1795, at West Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, where his family had been settled for two generations, their original residence having been at Lowestoff, in Suffolk.

His father, who was collector of the customs at Cowes, died suddenly of spasm in the heart, on March 3d, 1801. His two elder brothers, William and Matthew, died, the first in 1806, the second in 1820. His sisters all survived him, with the exception of the third, Susannah, who, after a lingering complaint in the spine, died at Laleham in 1832.

His early education was confided by his mother to her sister, Miss Delafield, who took an affectionate pride in her charge, and directed all his studies as a child. In 1803 he was sent to Warminster school, in Wiltshire, under Dr. Griffiths, with whose assistant master, Mr. Lawes, he kept up his intercourse long after they had parted. In 1807 he was removed to Winchester, where, having entered as a commoner, and afterwards become a scholar of the college, he remained till 1811. In after life he always cherished

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