Introductory Lectures On Modern History Delivered in Lent Term Mdcccxlii Wit
Introductory Lectures On Modern History Delivered in Lent Term Mdcccxlii Wit
Arnold Thomas
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Indeed, it is hardly pos- sible, without a smile, to consider the contrast of the various virtues of the head-master of Rugby, and of the no less well-honoured angler opposite merits which it will be better to comprehend under the charity of uncensorious, catholic judgment, than to set in opposition. It would be a pity too to discover asperity in Dr. Arnold's allusion to Walton, against whose inoffensive and sweet-spirited character the only writer who has ever uttered a harsh or unkind word wa...s that fierce polemic Bishop Warburton. The contrast is indeed most remarkable Arnold's impetuous temperament and undaunted, unfailing energy painfully alive to what he regarded as social, or political, or ecclesiastical evil, and, though despondent of the power to remove or mitigate it, always earnest, prompt, and strenuous in putting into action all the ability he had at command : in the famil- iarity of correspondence with one of his family, he exclaims, " I must write a pamphlet in the holidays, or I shall burst.
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