REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. BY ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, M.A., .FELLOW AND TUTOR OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. FIFTH EDITION. LONDON: B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET. 1845. 243 classed 2-8.31 4VM 021 D167G PRE FACE. THE Sources from which this work has been drawn have necessarily been exceedingly various. It was in fact originally intended that the several parts should have been supplied by different writers, as in the instance of the valuable contribution which, in addition to his kind assistance throughout, has been furnished to the earlier part by Mr. Justice Coleridge; and although, in its present shape, the responsibility of arranging and executing it has fallen upon one person, yet it should still be clearly understood how largely I have availed myself of the aid of others, in order to supply the defects of my own personal knowledge of Dr. Arnold's life and character, which was confined to the intercourse I enjoyed with him, first as his pupil at Rugby, from 1829 to 1834, and thenceforward, on more familiar terms, to the end of his life. To his family, I feel that the fewest words will best express my sense, both of the confidence which they reposed in me by entrusting to my care so precious a charge, and of the manifold kindness with which they have assisted me, as none others could. |