The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

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misfortunes of one's best friends not wholly unpleasing. But
after the first bite or sting, the power of feeling is almost lost;
it is worth while to be attacked for the sake of being free
from attacks for the rest of your life.'
3. February 8, i86i. (To Dean Elliot.) 'A new attempt
is to be made to endow the Greek Professorship with ~400
a year, which the University is to consent to give at the
instigation of Dr. Pusey, on the condition of the Crown handing
over the Patronage to a Board consisting of three Cabinet
Ministers and the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the
University. Having been appointed by the Crown, I cannot
say that I like the Crown giving up the nomination to an
important position, and wrote to say so, that the Government
might know the exact state of the case; but having been
hard-worked and starved for five years, I feel that it would
be quixotic in me to oppose what the Government sees no
objection to.-I think however the measure, though agreed
to by the Government and the Council, is very likely to come
to grief in the House of Commons.
4. March 22, i86x. (To Mrs. Tennyson.) 'I cannot but
express to you what I feel, especially in all this tumult, that it
is the greatest blessing and good to me to have friends like
you and Mr. Tennyson, who are so true and affectionate to me.'
5. March 22, i86i. (To F. T. Palgrave.) 'Many thanks to
you for caring whether I am troubled about the "persecution."
I think I am not deceiving myself in saying that I don't mind
about it. Annoyances in College, which I sometimes receive,
trouble me more.'
6. April i, i86i. (To Dean Elliot.) 'I feel a great and increasing responsibility about this Spirit which has come (not
at our call) from the vasty deep. But I have had, thank God,
no pain or annoyance from the attacks on me, though the
clergyman of this parish (Freshwater) does call me and others
"Judas Iscariot " in his sermons.'
7. April i, i86i. ' No one ever stood by a friend better than
Dr. Stanley has stood by me in this tumult. While he lives
p. 303. It was thrown out averred, through some ' Liberals'
in Convocation-as Dr. Pusey having joined the Opposition.
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