The Life and Remains of the REV. Edward Daniel Clarke, LL. D., Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. His engagement to travel with Lord Berwick--Tour to Italy--His employments and acquirements there--Residence at Naples--Projected excursion to Egypt and Greece--Hasty journey to England and back--Departure from Naples--Return to England--Conclusion of the tour--Letters on foreign travel. In the autumn of this year, 1791, and shortly after the close of his journey, we find him balancing between the prospect of another winter at Hothfield with his pupil, and the alternative of entering into holy orders with an immediate prospect of the curacy of Uckfield, which had been served by his elder brother, but was at this time offered to him; and, certainly, if any proposal of the kind could have tempted him, it would have been the curacy of Uckfield, where all that was most dear to him in life was assembled, and where he was always anxious to take up his abode. But, as he was not at this time disposed to embrace the profession of the church, he did not hesitate long; and the result of his deliberation with the reasons upon which it was founded, will be best learnt from one of his letters to his friend and biographer, dated October, 1791. " Your letter came most welcome to me; I had just been framing a remonstrance against your long silence. It was not my wish to leave Mr. Tufton, but all my friends cried out against me, and said it would be madness to resign M a certain emolument, for the precarious consequences of another six months' interment at Hothfield. I wrote to the Bishop of Gloucester, and asked his advice; he begged to stand neuter, and give no opinion upon such a nice point. I then sent off my letters to the Duke of Dorset; I represented the whole case, offered to take Mr. Tufton into our family, which must be better for him than being at H...