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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? Fortunæ lusus habemur? Singula præteriens det rapiatve dies? En nemus exaninum, qua se modo germina, verno Tempore, purpureis explicuere comis. Respice pacatum Neptuni numine pontum: Territa mox tumido verberat astra salo. Sed brevior brevibus, quas unda supervenit, undis Sed gelidâ, quam mox dissipat aura, nive: Sed foliis sylvarum, et amici veris odore, Quisquis honos placeat, quisquis alatur amor. Jamne joci lususque sonant? viget alma Juventus? Funereæ forsan eras cecinere tubæ. Nec pietas, nec casta Fides, nec libera Virtus, Nigrantes vetuit mortis inire domos. Certa tamen lex ipsa manet, labentibus annis, Quæ jubet assiduas quæque subire vices. (1830) Gladstone.An malum a seipso possit sanari? Affirmatur. Cernis ut argutas effuderit Anna querelas? Lumen ut insolitâ triste tumescat aquâ? Quicquid in ardenti flammarum corde rotatur, Et fronte et rubris pingitur omne genis. Dum ruit hùc illùc, speculum simulacra ruentis, Ora Mimalloneo plena furore, refert. Pectora vesano cùm turgida conspicit æstu, Quæ fuit (haud qualis debeat esse) videt. Ac veluti ventis intra sua claustra coactis, Quum piget Æolium fræna dedisse ducem; Concita non aliter subsidit pectoris unda, Et propriâ rursum sede potitur Amor, Jurâsses torvam perculso astare Medusam Jurares Paphiæ lumen adesse deæ.

49. Excursion, Book iv. p. 1.

50. It is curious, we may note in passing, that Thomas Gladstone, his eldest brother, was then member for Queenborough, and he, after voting in the majority of one, a few weeks later changed his mind and supported the amendment that destroyed the first bill. At the election he lost his seat.

51. It is given in Robbins, Early Life, pp. 104-5.

52. Oxford, Feb. 5, 1890.

53. See Appendix.