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Title: Short Studies on Great Subjects

Author: James Anthony Froude

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SHORT STUDIES
ON
GREAT SUBJECTS.

LONDON
PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.
NEW-STREET SQUARE

SHORT STUDIES
ON
GREAT SUBJECTS.

BY

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD.

_SECOND EDITION._

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1867.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY 1

TIMES OF ERASMUS AND LUTHER:
Lecture I 26
Lecture II 50
Lecture III 75

THE INFLUENCE OF THE REFORMATION ON THE SCOTTISH CHARACTER 102

THE PHILOSOPHY OF CATHOLICISM 124

A PLEA FOR THE FREE DISCUSSION OF THEOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES 133

CRITICISM AND THE GOSPEL HISTORY 159

THE BOOK OF JOB 185

SPINOZA 223

THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 265

ENGLAND'S FORGOTTEN WORTHIES