Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . n the EasternChurch (1861); History of the Jewish Church(1863-76); the delightful Historical Memorialsof Westminster Abbey (1866) ; and Lectures on theChujrh of Scotland (1872). His main aim as aChristian divine and as a Churchman was to pro-mote mutual understanding and sympathy between Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 395 the most opposed schools of thought ; he alwaysmaintained that the essence of Christiani
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . n the EasternChurch (1861); History of the Jewish Church(1863-76); the delightful Historical Memorialsof Westminster Abbey (1866) ; and Lectures on theChujrh of Scotland (1872). His main aim as aChristian divine and as a Churchman was to pro-mote mutual understanding and sympathy between Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 395 the most opposed schools of thought ; he alwaysmaintained that the essence of Christianity waspractically independent of dogma, rites, or cere-monies. He not merely contended for toleration,denouncing with equal warmth the prosecution ofritualists and of rationalists, but insisted earnestly onsuch wide comprehension in the National Churchas to make enemies within and without, and evendisciples and friends, doubt whether such compre-hension could be attained without the effaceinentof essential belief The charm of his characterand the beauty of his charity did more to conciliateesteem than his logic to enforce conviction : hispersonal influence was weightier than his books, of. ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY. From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co. which, perhaps, the Life of Arnold was his mostpermanent addition to English literature. Inhistorical writing his concern was more with thepersonal, the pictorial, and the dramatic than withwide generalisations or historic precision ; in com-mentary, with the vital spirit than with criticalaccuracy ; in theology, with love than with married in 1863 Lady Augusta Bruce of theElgin family, and is buried along with her inHenry Chapel in Westminster Abbey. At wild amidst garden shrubs [is] the solitaryobelisk which stood in front of the temple, then incompany with another, whose base alone now is the first obelisk I have seen standing in itsproper place, and there it has stood for
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