Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, of Abbotsford, D.C.L., Q.C., Late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford; With Selections from His Correspondence Volume (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...has no discretion. If it has a discretion, it is plain, upon all your principles, that it must be exercised in behalf of the Church. 56. Would you say anything of the state of half-communion in which the Anglican Church stands with the Greek? Palmer will supply the facts. Yours, What has now been placed before the reader from Mr. Hope s side of the correspondence on this subject will afford a sufliciently distinct idea of his own position in the religious controversies of the time, particularly as evidencing that he was an independent thinker, and not one of the many Who, in all great movements, are simply governed by impressions derived from the leading minds. There are still many pages in which he discharges the office of censor with the most minute diligence, correcting, suggesting, and sometimes remodelling paragraphs, never hesitating, Where he sees cause, Verba movere loco, quamvis invita reccdant, or even to advise his friend to re-Write such portions of the work as he thought incomplete or unequal to what had gone before. These criticisms, however, though in themselves full of interest, could hardly be understood without a much more copious citation of the passages commented on than the scope of the present memoir would allow; and of Mr. Hope s letters on this head I add only two more, as including some particulars illustrative of the contemporary affairs of the Anglican Church, and of the course of reading in which he was then engaged: --Dear Gladstone, --I take advantage of Kinnaird s appointment to join you at Ems to make him the bearer of a letter.... The most interesting piece of news which I have to tell you is that of Benjamin Harrison s having been made chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury in the.