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

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my friends are sanguine in imagining they will succeed hereafter. Next year it is true that they will get a small majority
in Congregation. This however is of no use, as the other
party will always bring up the country clergy in Convocation.
I have therefore requested Dr. Stanley to take no further steps
in the Council on the subject; it seems to me undignified to
keep the University squabbling about my income 1.'
13. 1862. (To Stanley.) 'As to " complicity " with Baden
Powell or Wilson, I do not wish to be separated from them or
any other professing Christian man who cares for truth. I think
this is right in the long run, though it leads to immediate misrepresentation.
'I have no personal feeling about - any more than about
- 2 (not from Christian charity or magnanimity), but
because it seems to me absurd to allow personal feelings to
come into public questions.'
14. July I9, 1862. (To Stanley,) 'I think I had an average
of between fifty and sixty at the lecture on Thucydides last
Term, more at first and fewer at last: and about forty brought
me exercises in Greek and English.
'It gives me pleasure to see that I am in a better position
now than I was a year ago at Oxford. And I cannot feel or
express too often to you and to every one, how much I owe
it to your courage and generosity.
'May I not be wanting to myself.'
I5. February, 1863. (To Mrs. Tennyson.) 'Thank God, I
fight my enemies with a cheerful heart 3. On Friday at Oxford
we object to the jurisdiction of the Court, which is trying to
smuggle in an ecclesiastical cause under colour of a breach
of the Statutes of the University. If the Assessor refuses to
hear the cause, all will be at an end; if not, I am advised
to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for an inhibition of
their proceeding. Will you give my best love to Alfred and
the children? I certainly believe that no harm will come of
the matter.'
I6. March, 1863. (To Mrs. Tennyson.) 'I think I am in
1 This letter has been published 2 The writers in the Saturday
in the Autobiography of Frances Review and the Westminster.
Power Cobbe, vol. i. p. 353. S See pp. 31-34.