[212] He was by no means alone in indulging this pious sentiment. On all sides, in 1835, ‘from Newman to Macaulay, from Cobbett to Arnold, the Reformers were receiving scathing criticism.’ The Life-Work of Cardinal Wiseman, in _Problems and Persons_, by Wilfrid Ward. Longmans, 1903. [213] Of Nov. 18, 1834. This is a homespun boyish acknowledgement of Newman’s beautiful flight of words, straight to the heart of his friend. [214] Newman’s note some thirty years later, _Letters and Correspondence_, ii., 7. ‘_N.B._――Froude would not believe that I was in earnest, as I was, in shrinking from the views which he boldly followed out. I _was_ against Transubstantiation.’ [215] In the standard modern edition, _Pensées Fragments et Lettres de Blaise Pascal_ … par M. Prosper Faugère, Paris, Leroux, 1897, the passage occurs in Lettre V. (à Mademoiselle de Roannez), fin d’Octobre, 1656, pp. 52-53. [216] Probably in a letter. Mr. Christie was at this time devoting himself to Ridley, whom he looked upon, Mr. Mozley tells us, as a Saint and an Authority; his papers appeared later in _The British Critic_. [217] Sir William Hamilton’s celebrated (anonymous) article on ‘Admission of Dissenters to the Universities,’ _Edinburgh Review_, vol. lx., pp. 202 _et seq._, for October, 1834, includes some telling paragraphs on the Practical Theology (in reference to the countenancing of polygamy) and the Biblical Criticism (boldly destructive) of Luther, Bucer, and Melancthon. [218] First published as Tract 18: _Thoughts on the Benefits of the System of Fasting enjoined by our Church._ It is dated Oxford, The Feast of S. Thomas [1834], and signed E. B. P., being the first of the _Tracts_ to bear a signature, by way of disassociating its author from the real Tractarians. [219] The ‘Dartington one’ is, as we have seen, ‘Scripture a Record of Human Sorrow’; the ‘Naples one’ is possibly ‘Religious Emotion,’ Nos. xiv. and xxv. in _Parochial Sermons_, by John Henry Newman, M.A., Vicar of S. Mary the Virgin’s, Oxford, and Fellow of Oriel College. London: Rivington, 1834. [220] Did Froude mean to write ‘Gallican’? Saint Francis de Sales as a Jansenist fills a new rôle. [221] ‘The Rise and Fall of Gregory,’ chapter ix., in _The Church of the Fathers_. Reprinted from _The British Magazine_, by Rivington, 1840, p. 146. [222] Robert Isaac Wilberforce, as Vicar of East Farleigh, near Maidstone, Kent, was out of Oxford life practically from 1831 to 1849. [223] Choused means swindled, duped. [224] _Sic._ [225] Unidentified. [226] He has forgotten, for the moment, his own illuminating word spoken two years before: ‘Surely the promise “I am with you always” means something?’ …