I might be swathed in clouds of prejudice there was
something of an eye within, that might gradually pierce them.

FOOTNOTES:

[34] Charles Wordsworth's _Annals_.

[35] After Peel had begun his career, Jackson gave him a piece of advice
that would have pleased Mr. Gladstone:--'Let no day pass without your
having Homer in your hand. Elevate your own mind by continual meditation
on the vastness of his comprehension and the unerring accuracy of all
his conceptions. If you will but read him four or five times over every
year, in a half a dozen years you will know him by heart, and he well
deserves it.'--Parker's _Life of Sir R. Peel_, i. p. 28.

[36] On the four periods of Aristotelian study at Oxford in the first
half of the century see Pattison's Essays, i. P. 463.

[37] _Ibid_, i. p. 465.

[38] Reprinted from the _Edingburgh Review_ in _Discussions on
Philosophy and Literature_, pp. 401-559. (1852.)

[39] Tupper (_My Life_, etc., p. 53, 1886) mentions that he beat Mr.
Gladstone for the Burton theological essay, 'The Reconciliation of
Matthew and John'; but Gladstone was so good a second that Dr. Burton
begged that one-fifth of the prize money, might be given to him as
solatium.

[40] Anstice was afterwards professor of Classics at King's College, and
was cut off prematurely at the age of thirty. See below, p. 134.

[41] _Gleanings_, vii. p. 141.

[42] _Ibid._ ii, p. 1.

[43] Purcell (_Manning_, i. p. 46) makes Mr. Gladstone say, 'I was
intimate with Newman, but then we had many friends in common.' This must
be erroneously reported.

[44] _Gleanings_, vii. p. 211.

[45] Sir Thomas Acland gives the names of the first twelve members as
follows: Gladstone, Gaskell, Doyle, Moncreiff, Seymer, Rogers, two
Aclands, Leader, Anstice, Harrison, Cole. Mr. Gladstone in a letter to
Acland (1889) mentions these twelve names, and adds 'from the old book
of record,' Bruce, J., Bruce, F., Egerton, Liddell, Lincoln, Lushington,
Maurice, Oxenham, Vaughan, Thornton, C. Marriott.

[46] At Palmerston Club, Oxford, Jan. 30, 1878.

[47] His father was a Liverpool merchant, and had been mayor.

[48] By the kindness of the present dean of Christ Church I am able to
give the reader a couple of specimens of Mr. Gladstone's Latin verse.
The two pieces were written for 'Lent verses':--

(1829) Gladstone. _An aliquid sit immutabile?
Affirmatur._

Vivimus incertum? F