The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/The Sinner's Comedy/Dedication
To
(Formerly Fellow[2] of Balliol College,[3] Oxford,[4] and late Professor of
Greek and Latin at University College,[5] London),
WHO DIED ON
7th February, 1892.
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"He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
Exceeding wise …
Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer."[6]
"Whatsoever he said, all men believed him that as he spake,[7] so he thought, and whatsoever he did, that he did it with good intent. His manner was, never to wonder at anything; never to be in haste, and yet never slow; nor to be perplexed, or dejected, or at any time unseemly to laugh; nor to be angry, or suspicious, but ever ready to do good, and to forgive, and to speak truth: and all this, as one that seemed rather of himself to have been straight and right, than ever to have been rectified or redressed …"[8]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ “Alfred Goodwin and Professor W.P. Ker took the greatest interest in her progress, and sympathized with her plans and aspirations. They knew her ambition was to excel as a writer, and their criticism was keen and unsparing, helping her to the formation of her style. Goodwin died in the year that the book was published.”
- ↑ In academia, a fellow is a member of a group of learned people who work together as peers in the pursuit of mutual knowledge or practice. The fellows may include visiting professors, postdoctoral researchers and doctoral researchers.
- ↑ founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Among the college's alumni are three former prime ministers (H. H. Asquith, who once described Balliol men as possessing "the tranquil consciousness of an effortless superiority", Harold Macmillan, and Edward Heath), five Nobel laureates, and a number of literary figures and philosophers. Moral philosopher Adam Smith is perhaps the best known alumnus of the college.
- ↑ a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. While Oxford has no known date of foundation, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096,[1] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the world's second-oldest surviving university.
- ↑ a public research university in London, England, and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London.[5] Founded in 1826, UCL was the first university institution in London and the first in England to be established on an entirely secular basis, to admit students regardless of their religion and to admit women on equal terms with men.
- ↑ King Henry VIII, The Works of William Shakspere, William Shakespeare
- ↑ archaic past of speak
- ↑ Meditations by Aurelius, XII, Marcus Aurelius