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

Letters, 1865-1870

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to give, in a condensed form, modern views of the questions
treated of, as well as explanations of the Greek. So that, you
see, I have my hands full, and am not idle, though people
naturally think I am gone to sleep or am dead.
(I told my mother to send you one of my sermons. The
other1 is, I fear, still in the pocket of Dr. Stanley's cassock.
The sermon on Prayer has too much negation and too little
positive. A lady told me that it would be a good excuse to
my pupils for not going to church.)
To PROFESSOR LEWIS CAMPBELL.
TUMMEL BRIDGE, PITLOCHRY, N.B., [I866].
I am at one of my old haunts with Lord Donoughmore and
E. Myers, who is good enough to be his tutor, preparing
the Republic for the press; also some Divinity lectures for
next Term. I shall hope to come to St. Andrews about
September 8 for a month, and then, as iron sharpeneth iron,
I shall be sharpened by you. At present I am going on in
a very plodding, mechanical manner.
To PROFESSOR JOHN NICHOL.
[i866.]
I imagine that when this reaches you the matter of the
Professorship will have been settled.... But I cannot help
writing to assure you that nothing which happens to you is
indifferent to me. I think that I would do anything to promote
your interests, and you must promote them yourself. You and
I are in the same difficulty; we can look for no external help,
but must fashion our lives for ourselves, and that ought to unite
us: if opportunities don't come, we must look at life calmly and
make them; it is no use complaining of having public opinion
against us. We have challenged that, although perhaps undesignedly, and now we must fight it out and make a place for
ourselves. You know as well as I do that to have written
a good book is worth a great deal more both in real usefuli.e. the first which he preached at Westminster.
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