This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... but temporary. Some unusually tedious Chapter-work at Norwich brought on the old alarming attacks of giddiness, and June came before he was fit to travel to Blackpool, where his relations were then residing. Then he rapidly got well and strong; and was even tempted to go so far afield as Manchester. But the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... but temporary. Some unusually tedious Chapter-work at Norwich brought on the old alarming attacks of giddiness, and June came before he was fit to travel to Blackpool, where his relations were then residing. Then he rapidly got well and strong; and was even tempted to go so far afield as Manchester. But the imprudence was not justified by success. "My head was perplexed," he writes, "by the interminable multitude of pictures and other works of art; and would not endure the posture of gazing, hour after hour. If I had leisure I should like to spend a month at Manchester, and devote four hours every day to a study of the noble works of art." So he wisely betook himself to Dent for a fortnight, and thence to the Lakes, "to sweep up a little geological dust that had not been swept up before'." To the Duke of Argyll. DENT, October 20th, 1857. My dear Lord Duke, I left my duties at Norwich on the first day of this month, and after a halt of two days at Cambridge, came down to the old parsonage of Dent... You must not think, from some words I scattered, that our Cathedral congregations are always composed of a few tottering old women. I preached every Sunday during my three months Residence of the past year to a very large congregation. And it went on increasing, for every corner 1 To MissF. Hicks, n May, 1857. 2 To Miss Kate Malcolm, 1 July, 1857. To the same, 7 September, 1857. INDIAN POLICY. 335 of our large Cathedral choir was at length filled, and I had 1857. each Sunday of the summer months a congregation of about 7l1,200 persons sitting under me... I passed the fast-day at Dent, and was glad to find my dear, honest, humble, countrymen in a state of strong feeling at the dismal news from India. My brother addressed...
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