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

Letters, 1837-1839 69
great is as nothing-I mean your endeavour to keep me in
the right way.. I came here three days since, and shall remain till the
end of the week. Before I leave I purpose walking along
the coast to Clovelly and back again, and from Linton to Bridgwater. We had a terrible passage here by the steamer, which.
although the distance is but 80 miles, lasted two days. After
lying to the greater part of the first day we attempted to
proceed in the evening, but had not gone above a mile when
we were struck by a Welsh steamer. The carrying away of
the figurehead was the only injury we received, but as the sea
was running high the captain was afraid to proceed. We
arrived here after a stormy passage at six o'clock the next day... Speaking of Newman, there is an article in the last
Edinburgh on the life of Froude2 in which, though gross injustice is done to the subject of it, there are some striking
and useful remarks. It is evidently written by a religious
man, and would I think please, and certainly not displease
you. How full religious people's minds are of what they
term the popery of Oxford-their violence against it being
in exact proportion to their ignorance. I do not either agree
with or understand many of Newman's principles, but cannot
help thinking that they will have on the whole a salutary
influence on the Protestant Church in bringing back men's
minds to a class of duties which have been too much neglected.
I fancy that in the ordinary divinity of the day, far too much
stress is laid on words; there is a sort of theological slang,
if I may be excused the expression, a religious phraseology,
in laying aside which you are supposed to be undermining
1 More than fifty years after days, and had troubles to which
this, in writing to Dr. Greenhill, I was unequal, though I ought
who had congratulated him on not to have been so.... This
his recovery from the almost fatal College has been a haven to me
illness of i891, he referred to for fifty-six, or, since I gained
their intercourse at this time: a Fellowship, fifty-three years.'
'I shall always remember with 2 Edinburgh Review for July,
gratitude your great kindness to I838, 'Remains of Richard Hurrell
me when I was a youth. I was Froude.'
very weak and wayward in those