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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Reginald Heber, Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Reginald Heber Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta Author:Thomas Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Heber is elected a Fellow of All-Souls -- Carries off the prize for his Essay on "The Sense of Honour" -- Enters upon his Continental Tour -- Visits Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Hungary, and Germany -- Returns to England -- Efforts to promote his brother's election for Oxford -- Re-enters the University -- Solemnly prepares for taking orders -- Takes up his degree of Master of Arts -- Remarks on his collegiate life -- First sermon at Hodnet -- Entrance upon his living there. Shortly after the death of his father, which occurred in the early part of 1804, Heber returned to college, and pursued his studies with unremitting diligence, fagging hard to prepare for his approaching examination, which was to take place in the ensuing May. In this respect he fully maintained his literary reputation, succeeding far beyond his most sanguine expectations, and entirely to the satisfaction of all his friends. On the 2nd of the following November he was elected a Fellow of All-Souls, on which occasion he thus writes to his intimate friend, John Thornton, Esq. " I know your friendship is interested in every fortunate event which can befal me, and that you will hear with pleasure that I am become a Fellow of All-Souls. I even now begin to find the comfort of my new situation, whichis, for any young man, particularly if he reads at all, certainly most enviable." In the following year Heber carried off the prize, for an English Essay on " The Sense of Honour;" a. most difficult subject, but one exactly suited to his powers. In this admirable Essay, the subject of discussion is treated with masterly ski...« less