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FRANCIS W NEWMAN MEMOIR AND LETTERS OF FRANCIS W. NEWMAN

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Francis William Newman (27 June 1805 – 7 October 1897), the younger brother of Cardinal Newman, was an English scholar and miscellaneous writer.Born in London, Newman and his brother were both educated at Ealing, and subsequently at Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, obtaining a double first class in 1826.[1] He was elected fellow of Balliol in the same year.[1] Conscientious scruples respecting the ceremony of infant baptism led him to resign his fellowship in 1830,[2] and he went to Baghdad as assistant in the faith mission of Anthony Norris Groves. In 1833 he returned to England to procure additional support for the mission, but rumours of unsoundness in his views on the doctrine of eternal punishment had preceded him, and finding himself generally looked upon with suspicion, he gave up the vocation of missionary to become classical tutor in an unsectarian college at Bristol. His letters written home during the period of his mission were collected and published in 1856. Newman's views matured rapidly, and in 1840 he became Professor of Latin in Manchester New College, the celebrated Unitarian seminary long established at York, and the parent of Manchester College, Oxford. In 1846 he quit this appointment to become professor in University College, London, where he remained until 1869. During all this period he was assiduously carrying on his studies in mathematics and oriental languages, but wrote little until 1847, when he published anonymously a History of the Hebrew Monarchy, intended to introduce the results of German investigation in this department of Biblical criticism. In 1849 appeared The Soul, her Sorrows and Aspirations, and in 1850, Phases of Faith, or Passages from the History of my Creed, the former a tender but searching analysis of the relations of the spirit of man with the Creator; the latter a religious autobiography detailing the author's passage from Calvinism to pure theism. It is on these two books that Professor Newman's celebrity will principally rest, as in them his intense earnestness has kept him free from the eccentricity which marred most of his other writings, excepting his contributions to mathematical research and oriental philology. [more]

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Elizabeth Reid Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life

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Elizabeth Reid Cotton,[1] Lady Hope (9 December 1842 – 8 March 1922) was a British evangelist who encouraged [more]

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Elizabeth Reid Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life

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Elizabeth Anne Reid (born 3 July 1942) AO, FASSA, is an Australian development practitioner, feminist and academic with [more]

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Giberne Sieveking Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

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Of all the influences which have most to do in the making of an individual, heredity is perhaps [more]

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Anonymous Anonymous Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

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Anonymous is the adjective form of anonymity, the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, [more]

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Anonymous . Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

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Maryland in the year 1766. My parents were slaves. Both my father and mother were religious people, and belonged to the Methodist Society. It was my father's practice to read in the Bible aloud to his children every sabbath morning. At these seasons, when I was but five years old, I often felt the overshadowing of the Lord's Spirit, without at all understanding what it meant; and these incomes and influences continued to attend me until I was eleven years old [more]

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Giberne Sieveking Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

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GIBERNE SIEVEKING outos ge axios estin epainesthai ostis an tois hetairois os teleion ti onprotithae to eu [more]

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Giberne Sieveking Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

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Rightly understood, the two points of view, as regards Religion, of the brothers, Cardinal Newman and Francis Newman, which [more]

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Agent Aries A memoir: The door, the window, the trees, the stars

Biography & Autobiography
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This is just a short moment of my life, but it is also one of the biggest moments [more]

Keywords: trees, stars, moon, window, freedom, family, divorce, abuse, pain, resolve

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JOHN YEARDLEY MEMOIR AND DIARY OF JOHN YEARDLEY, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL

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John Yeardley Was Born On The 3Rd Of The First Month, 1786, At A Small Farm-House Beside Orgreave Hall, In the Valley Of The Rother, Four Miles South Of Rotherham. His Parents, Joel And Frances Yeardley, Farmed some Land, Chiefly Pasture, And His Mother Is Said To Have Been Famous For Her Cream-Cheeses, Which She Carried herself To Sheffield Market. She Was A Pious And Industrious Woman; But, Through The Misconduct Of Her Husband, Was Sometimes Reduced to Such Straits As Scarcely To Have Enough Food For Her Children. [more]

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