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NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM (1805-1897)

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FRANCIS
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FRANCIS 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
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WILLIAM (1805-1897) , See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar and See also:

MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous writer, younger See also:

BROTHER

brother of See also:

CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

Cardinal Newman, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

LONDON

London on the 27th of See also:

JUNE

June 1805. Like his brother, he was educated at See also:

EALING

Ealing, and subsequently at See also:

Oxford, where he had a brilliant career, obtaining a See also:

double first class in 1826. He was elected See also:

FELLOW

fellow of Balliol in the same See also:

YEAR

year. Conscientious scruples respecting the ceremony of See also:

INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant See also:

BAPTISM

baptism led him to resign his fellowship in 1830, and he went to Baghdad as assistant in the See also:

MISSION

mission of the Rev. A. N. Groves. In 1833 he returned to See also:

England to procure additional support for the mission, but rumours of unsoundness in his views on the See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine of eternal See also:

PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment had preceded him, and finding himself generally looked upon with suspicion, he gave up the vocation of missionary to become classical See also:

TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor in an unsectarian See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college at See also:

Bristol. His letters written See also:

home during the See also:

period of his mission were collected and published in 1856, and See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form an interesting little See also:

VOLUME

volume. Newman's views matured rapidly, and in 1840 he became See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Latin in See also:

Manchester New College, the celebrated Unitarian See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary See also:

long established at See also:

York, and the See also:

PARENT, SIMON NAPOLEON (1855– )

parent of Manchester College, Oxford. In 1846 he quitted this See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment to become professor in University College, London, where he remained until 1869. During all this period 1 See also:

Morgan had been made See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent at Fort See also:

Pitt (See also:

Pittsburg) in 1776, and was commissioned a See also:

COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

colonel in the See also:

CONTINENTAL

Continental See also:

Army in 1777.

In 1806 he was visited at his home, near Pittsburg, by See also:

AARON

Aaron See also:

BURR, AARON (1756-1836)

Burr, who told him something about his famous " See also:

CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme in the See also:

West, which Morgan reported to See also:

Jefferson—" the very first intimation I had of the See also:

plot," Jefferson afterward wrote to Morgan. he was assiduously carrying on his studies in See also:

MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics and See also:

ORIENTAL

oriental See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, but wrote little until 1847, when he published anonymously a See also:

HISTORY

History of the See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew See also:

MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

Monarchy, intended to introduce the results of See also:

German investigation in this See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Biblical See also:

criticism. In 1849 appeared The Soul, her Sorrows and Aspirations, and in 185o, Phases of Faith, or Passages from the History of my Creed—the former a See also:

TENDER

tender but searching See also:

ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis of the relations of the spirit of See also:

man with the Creator; the latter a religious autobiography detailing the author's passage from Calvinism to pure See also:

theism. It is on these two books that Professor Newman's celebrity will principally See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest; having in both to describe his See also:

PERSONAL

personal experience, his intense earnestness has kept him See also:

FREE

free from the eccentricity which marred most of his other writings, excepting his contributions to mathematical See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research and oriental See also:

PHILOLOGY

philology. There was, indeed, scarcely a See also:

CROTCHET (from the Fr. croche, a hook; whence also the Anglicized " crochet," pronounced as in French, for the knitting-work done with a hook instead of on pins)

crotchet, except " See also:

SPIRITUALISM

spiritualism," of which he was not at one See also:

time or another the See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate. His versatility was amazing: he wrote on See also:

LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic, See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

ECONOMY

economy, English reforms, See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian politics, See also:

ROMAN

Roman history, See also:

DIET

diet, See also:

GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar, the most abstruse departments of mathematics, Arabic, the emendation of See also:

Greek texts, and languages as out of the way as the See also:

BERBER

Berber and as obsolete as the See also:

DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect of the Iguvine See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions. In treating all these subjects he showed See also:

SIGNAL

signal ability, but, wherever the theme allowed, an incurable crotchetiness; and in his numerous metrical See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations from the See also:

CLASSICS

classics, especially his version of the Iliad, he betrayed an insensibility to the ridiculous which would almost have justified the irreverent criticism of See also:

Matthew See also:

Arnold, had this been conveyed in more seemly See also:

FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion. His miscellaneous essays, some of much value, were collected in several volumes before his See also:

DEATH

death: his last publication, Contributions chiefly to the See also:

Early History of Cardinal Newman (1891), was generally condemned as deficient in fraternal feeling. He was far from possessing his brother's subtlety of reasoning, but he impresses by a transparent sincerity and singleness of mind not always displayed by the more celebrated writer; his See also:

style is too individual to be taken as a See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model, but is admirable for its simplicity and clearness. His See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character is vividly See also:

DRAWN

drawn by See also:

Carlyle in his See also:

LIFE

life of See also:

Sterling, of whose son Newman was See also:

GUARDIAN

guardian: " a man of See also:

FINE

fine attainments, of the sharpest-cutting and most restlessly advancing See also:

INTELLECT (Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand)

intellect and of the mildest pious See also:

ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm." It was his See also:

GREAT

great misfortune that this enthusiasm should have been correlated, as is not unfrequently the See also:

case, with an entire in-sensibility to the humorous See also:

side of things. After his retirement from University College, Professor Newman continued to live for some years in London, subsequently removing to See also:

CLIFTON

Clifton, and eventually to See also:

WESTON, THOMAS (1737-1776)

Weston-super-See also:

MARE

Mare, where he died on the 7th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1897. He had been See also:

BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind for five years before his death, but retained his faculties to the last.

He was twice married. See T. G. Sieveking, Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman (1909). (R.

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