Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 401 pages of information about Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold.

Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 401 pages of information about Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold.

[475] John Hutchinson (1616-64), Puritan soldier.  The Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, written by his wife Lucy, but not published until 1806, are remarkable both for the picture which they give of the man and the time, and also for their simple beauty of style.  For the passage quoted see Everyman’s Library ed., pp. 182-83.

[476] paedobaptism.  Infant baptism.

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[477] Man disquiets himself, but God manages the matter.  For Bossuet see The Function of Criticism, Selections, Note 2, p. 49. [Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 60 in this e-text.]

[478] Prov.  XIX, 21.

[479] So in the original.[Arnold.]

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[480] Bright.  See Sweetness and Light, Selections, Note 1, p. 248.[Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 395 in this e-text.]

[481] Richard Cobden (1804-65), English manufacturer and Radical politician.  He was a leader in the agitation for repeal of the Corn Laws and in advocacy of free trade.

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[482] Prov.  XIV, 6.

[483] Compare Culture and Anarchy, chaps.  II and III, and Ecce Convertimur ad Gentes, Irish Essays, ed. 1903, p. 115.

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[484] Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), English diarist.

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[485] young lion.  See Sweetness and Light, Selections, Note 1, p. 261.[Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 408 in this e-text.]

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[486] Mill.  See Marcus Aurelius, Selections, Note 2, p. 145. [Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 183 in this e-text.]

[487] Spencer Compton Cavendish (1833-1908), Marquis of Hartington (since 1891 Duke of Devonshire), became Liberal leader in the House of Commons after the defeat and withdrawal of Gladstone in January, 1875.

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[488] Menander.  See Contribution of the Celts, Selections, Note 3, p. 177.[Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 255 in this e-text.]

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