A history of Shrewsbury School : from the Blakeway mss., and many other sources . nd kings, and the l)oroughs generally took little IiihmI df tlicm. Happily we know no other kind of warfare in our confines. What the awful visitation of a foreign army, who enter a country as conquerors, and speak a strange language might be we cannot ti-ll. But those who have read the pages of Arndt and Scheiermacher will understand how widely the troubles of ShreAvsbury differed from those of the great Colleges of Bonn, or Jena, or Heidelburg, when Napoleons soldic-ry swaiincd into the towns, and students were


A history of Shrewsbury School : from the Blakeway mss., and many other sources . nd kings, and the l)oroughs generally took little IiihmI df tlicm. Happily we know no other kind of warfare in our confines. What the awful visitation of a foreign army, who enter a country as conquerors, and speak a strange language might be we cannot ti-ll. But those who have read the pages of Arndt and Scheiermacher will understand how widely the troubles of ShreAvsbury differed from those of the great Colleges of Bonn, or Jena, or Heidelburg, when Napoleons soldic-ry swaiincd into the towns, and students were sent lionu. College chests were emptied, jind |i;iiiic stricken professors sought refuge In sccluilcd lionses, often running the gauntlet of flights of bullets, and not iit all secure, even wluu they reached their resting i)lace, and yet some of tlicm wrote great works in their years of seclusion, and indeed privation, thiuugh all the clang of arms. CHAPTER XI. Election op Taylor.—His Death.—Appointment of Me. !. Lloyds Resignation.—Appointment of Dk.


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