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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III At Oxford?Death of Lady Nares?On Circuit IN 1779, having completed his seventeenth year, Edward Nares was entered a commoner of Christ Church, Oxford, where his cousin Robert, and his brother George were already Westminster Students. The latter, however, soon left Oxford, his father having bought him a commission in the 70th Regiment. Dr. Bagot, successively Bishop of Bristol, Norwich, and St. Asaph, was Dean at this time, and Edward's tutor was Dr. John Randolph, subsequently Bishop of Bangor, and later of London. He was an eminent scholar and a very worthy man, though too reserved to give me the encouragement of which I stood in need. Had any of the Superiors of the College taken me by the hand at this time, I am confident I should have made great progress in my studies. As it was, my own unassisted efforts were not sufficient to raise me to any particular distinction, and I was rather depressed than encouraged by the 3 rewards bestowed on my more successful contemporaries. Under these circumstances the University course was, like the school course, distasteful to him, and though he passed through it with credit, especially for his mathematical work, he did not obtain a high reputation as a scholar. At the same time the desire of knowledge remained strong in him, and his father obtained permission from the Vice- Chancellor for him to be admitted to the Bodleian, a privilege generally reserved for Graduates only, of which he frequently availed himself. At College he gradually formed a large acquaintance, and became partly the Founder and actually the first President of a club, which was the first effort in the direction of the present successful Union. The membership was limited to sixteen, equally divided between Etonians, Wykehamists, Ha...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217157384 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217157386 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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