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Arthur Penryn Stanley : Life of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of Rugby

As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who was a noble fellow; and the letters of Burke, which do not add to, or detract from, what I knew and liked in him before. I am meditating to begin Thucydides one day; perhaps this winter. . .

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

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