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| His influence | 133 |
| Industry and spirit his best credentials | 135 |
| Youth | 136 |
| Went as a freshman to Oriel in 1832 | 139 |
| Affected by a profound weakness of will and character | 140 |
| The motto of his life—'Quicquid hic operis fiat pœnitet' | 142 |
| Newman | 145 |
| Mr. Goldwin Smith | 161 |
| Life of Milton | 169 |
| Contributes five biographies to the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica | 171 |
| Delivers a lecture on Books and Critics, 1877 | 171 |
| In 1871 and 1872 published editions of the Essay on Man and The Satires and Epistles of Pope | 172 |
To reckon the subject of this volume among leading minds who havestamped a deep influence on our generation, is not possible even to thefriendliest partiality. That was not his position, and nobody could beless likely than he would himself have been to claim it. Pattisonstarted no new problem. His name is associated with no fertilespeculation, and with no work of the first degree of importance. Nor washe any more intended for a practical leader than for an intellectualdiscoverer. He did not belong to the class of authoritative men who areborn to give decisions from the chair. Measured by any standardcommensurate to his remarkable faculties, Pattison's life would begenerally regarded as pale, negative, and ineffectual. Nevertheless, itis undeniable that he had a certain singular quality about him that madehis society more interesting, more piquant, and more sapid than that ofmany men of a far wider importance and more commanding achievement.