| Thomas Leach - 1887 - 194 pages
...Tractarians, with most of his followers, out of the place, was an epoch in the history of the University. It was a deliverance from the nightmare which had...not say science and learning, but the ordinary study ot the classics was so profitless or at so low an ebb as during the period of the Tractarian Controversy.... | |
| Charles William Boase - 1890 - 258 pages
...phase—in the movement of thought which belongs to the nineteenth century. . . . Newman's conversion was a deliverance from the nightmare which had oppressed...learning, but the ordinary study of the classics, was at so profitless or so low an ebb as during the period of the Tractarian controversy. By the secession... | |
| John Roach - 1971 - 320 pages
...Tractarians with most of his followers out of the place, was an epoch in the history of the University. It was a deliverance from the nightmare which had...business of the place. Probably there was no period in our history during which, I do not say science and learning, but the ordinary study of the classics... | |
| David McKitterick - 1992 - 556 pages
...words of Mark Pattison, a sense throughout the country that the past agitation had been extinguished.56 It was 'a deliverance from the nightmare which had oppressed Oxford for fifteen years . . . Probably there was no period of our history during which, I do not say science and learning,... | |
| 512 pages
...Tractarians, with most of his followers, out of the place, was an epoch in the history of the university. It was a deliverance from the nightmare which had...of the place. Probably there was no period of our 43 See The Cambridge History of the British Empire 2, The Growth of the New Empire 1783-1870 (Cambridge,... | |
| Michael G. Brock, Mark C. Curthoys - 1997 - 886 pages
...Tractarians, with most of his followers, out of the place, was an epoch in the history of the University. It was a deliverance from the nightmare which had...which had entirely diverted our thoughts from the true hosiness of the place... By the secessions of i845 this was extiogutshed io a moment... In i845 the... | |
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