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At the next meet- ing of the board, after the election, my father carried a resolution which rescinded Mr. Lockwood's. The rector's defeat was followed by a series of newspaper letters in his defence from the Rev. Edward Swann, mathematical master in the Gram- mar School. My father repHed in a pam- phlet, published in 1844, There was one endowment for which he was remarkable, the purity of the English he spoke and wrote. He used to say he owed it to Cobbett, whose style he certainly admired, bu...t this is but partly true. It was rather a natural consequence of the clearness of his own mind and of his desire to make himself wholly understood, both demand- ing the simplest and most forcible expres- sion. If the truth is of serious importance to us we dare not obstruct it by phrase- making : we are compelled to be as direct 30 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES as our inherited feebleness will permit. The cannon ball's path is near to a straight line in proportion to its velocity. " My " boy, " my father once said to me, " if " you write anything you consider par- " ticularly fine, strike it out.
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