Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890 / 2008-07-30 00:00:00
EBOOK APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA ***
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APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA
By John Henry (Cardinal) Newman
London: Published
by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
And in New York
by E.P. Dutton & Co.
Introduction
_"No autobiography in the English language has been more read; to
the nineteenth century it bears a relation not less characteristic
than Boswell's 'Johnson' to the eighteenth."_
Rev. Wm. Barry, D.D.
Newman was already a recognised spiritual leader of over thirty
year's standing, but not yet a Cardinal, when in 1864 he wrote the
_Apologia_. He was London born, and he had, as many Londoners have
had, a foreign strain in him. His father came of Dutch stock; his
mother was a Fourdrinier, daughter of an old French Huguenot family
settled in this country. The date of his birth, 21st of February
1801, relates him to many famous contemporaries, from Heine to Renan,
from Carlyle to Pusey. Sent to school at Ealing--an imaginative
seven-year-old schoolboy, he was described even then as being fond of
books and seriously minded. It is certain he was deeply read in the
English Bible, thanks to his mother's care, before he began Latin and
Greek.
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