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See also:ARNOLD, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1745-1842) , See also:English clergyman and headmaster of See also:Rugby school, was See also:born at See also:West See also:Cowes, in the Isle of See also:Wight, on the 13th of See also:June 1795. He was the son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William and Martha Arnold, the former of whom occupied the
situation of See also:collector of customs at Cowes. His See also:father died suddenly of spasm in the See also:heart in 18o1, and his See also:early See also:education was confided by his See also:mother to her See also:sister, See also:Miss Delafield. From her tuition he passed to that of Dr Griffiths, at See also:Warminster, in See also:Wiltshire, in 1803; and in 1807 he was removed to See also:Winchester, where he remained until 1811, having entered as a commoner, and afterwards become a See also:scholar of the See also:college. In after See also:life he retained a lively feeling of See also:interest in Winchester school, and remembered with admiration and profit the regulative tact of Dr Goddard. and the preceptorial ability of Dr Gabell, who were successively See also:head-masters during his stay there.
From Winchester he removed to See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford in 1811, where he became a scholar at Corpus Christi College; in 1815 he was eke'ed See also:fellow of See also:Oriel College; and there he continued to reside until 1810. This See also:interval was diligently devoted to the pursuit of classical and See also:historical studies, to preparing himself for ordination. and to searching investigations, under the stimulus of See also:conti:ival discussion with a See also:band of talented and congenial associ .tc:s, of the profoundest questions in See also:theology, ecclesiastical polity and social See also:philosophy. The authors he most carefully stur:i.d at this See also:period were See also:Thucydides and See also:Aristotle, and for their writings he formed an See also:attachment which remained to the See also:close of his life, and exerted a powerful See also:influence upon his mode of thought and opinions, as well as upon his See also:literary occupations in subsequent years. See also:Herodotus also came in for a considerable See also:share of his regard, but more, apparently, for recreation than for See also:work. Accustomed freely and fearlessly to investigate whatever came before him, and swayed by a scrupulous dread of insincerity, he was doomed to See also:long and anxious hesitation concerning some of the fundamental points of theology before arriving it a See also:firm conviction of the truth of See also:Christianity. Once satisfied, however, his faith remained clear and firm; and thenceforward his life became that of a supremely religious See also:man.
To the name of See also:Christ he was prepared to "surrender his whole soul," and to render before it "obedience, reverence without measure, intense humility, most unreserved See also:adoration" (Serra ns. vol. iv. p. 210). He did not often talk about See also:religion; he had See also:net much of the accredited phraseology of piety even when he discoursed on spiritual topics; but more than most men he was directed by religious principle and feeling in all his conduct. He See also:left Oxford in 1810 and settled at Laleham, near See also:Staines, where he took pupils for the university. His spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was devoted to the See also:prosecution of studies in See also:philology and See also:history, more particularly to the study of Thucydides, and of the new See also:light which had been See also:cast upon See also:Roman history and upon historical method in See also:general by the researches of See also:Niebuhr. He was alsa occasionally engaged in See also:preaching, and it was whilst here that he published the first See also:volume of his sermons. Shortly after he settled at Laleham, he married See also:Mary, youngest daughter of the Rev. See also:John Penrose, See also:rector of Fledborough, See also:Nottinghamshire. After nine years spent at Laleham he was induced to offer himself as a See also:candidate for the vacant head-mastership of Rugby; and though he entered somewhat See also:late upon the contest, and though none of the See also:electors was personally known to him, he was elected in See also:December 1827. In June 1828 he received See also:priest's orders; in See also:April and See also:November of the same See also:year he took his degrees of B.D. and D.D., and in See also:August entered on his new See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office.
In one of the testimonials which accompanied his application to the trustees of Rugby, the writer stated it as his conviction that " if Mr Arnold were elected, he would See also:change the See also:face of education all through the public See also:schools of See also:England." This somewhat hazardous See also:pledge was nobly redeemed. Under Arnold's superintendence the school became not merely a See also:place where a certain amount of classical or general learning was to be obtained, but a See also:sphere of intellectual, moral and religious discipline, where healthy characters were formed, and men were trained for the duties, and struggles and responsibilities of life. His energies were chiefly devoted to the business of the school; out he found time also for much literary work, as well as for an extensive See also:correspondence. Five volumes of sermons, an edition of Thucydides, with English notes and See also:dissertations, a History of See also:Rome in three vols. 8vo, beside numerous articles in reviews,See also:journals, See also:newspapers and encyclopaedias, are extant to attest the untiring activity of his mind, and his patient See also:diligence during this period. His interest also in public matters was incessant, especially ecclesiastical questions, and such as See also:bore upon the social welfare and moral improvement of the masses.
In 1841, after fourteen years at Rugby, Dr Arnold was appointed by See also:Lord See also:Melbourne, then See also:prime See also:minister, to- the See also:chair of See also:modern history at _Oxford; On the end of December 1841 he delivered his inaugural lecture. Seven other lectures were delivered during the first three See also:weeks of the See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
Lent See also:term of 1842. When the midsummer vacation arrived, he was preparing to set out with his See also:family to See also:Fox How in Westmoreland,' where he had See also:purchased some See also:property and built a See also:house. But he was suddenly attacked by angina pectoris, and died en See also:Sunday, the 12th of June 1842. His remains were interred on the following See also:Friday in the See also:chancel of Rugby See also:chapel, immediately under the communion table. -
The See also:great peculiarity and See also:charm of Dr Arnold's nature seemed to See also:lie in the supremacy of the moral and the spiritual See also:element. over his whole being. He was not a notable scholar, and he had not much of what is usually called tact in his dealings either with the juvenile or the adult mind. What gave him his See also:power, and secured for him so deeply the respect and veneration of his pupils and acquaintances, was- the intensely religious. See also:character of his whole life. He seemed ever. to See also:act from a severe and lofty - estimate of See also:duty. To be just, honest and truthful, he ever held to be the first aim of his being.
His Life was written by See also:Dean See also:Stanley (1845).
End of Article: ARNOLD, THOMAS (1745-1842)
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