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Some years afterwards (January, 1855) he wrote : ' I am sorry for the annoyance which that and similar counsels of mine may have caused you. I should not care about it with any one else, but I am aware that those sort of things give you pain. No one's position is more justifiable than yours : I only wish that we had some additional tie to connect you with Oxford. Twenty or thirty years of life and leisure with the power of writing is a grand prospect, enough to make a man's heart leap within hi...m. ' It would seem that Stanley had been hurt by the implied reflection on his enjoyment of a clerical sinecure, and that Jowett's heart smote him (after his own repulse for the Mastership) for having ' made sad ' the mind of his friend. But an earlier effect of that friend's refusal to undertake the work so eagerly pressed on him, was to call forth a long and elaborate letter on the Reform of Cathe- dral Establishments, beginning 'How may Cathedral Institutions be made to teem with life at every pore ?
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