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he afforded a subject of conversation to the two friends as they proceeded on their walk. "I wish there was less

e roads till there was nothing to walk on. We are forced to walk

rto been experimentally abortive.' I go into the place where degrees are given-the Convocation, I think-and there one hears a deal of unmeaning Latin for hours, graces, dispensations, and proctors walking up and down for nothing; all in order to keep up a sort of ghost of things passed away for centuries, while the real work might be done in a quarter of an hour. I fall in with this Bateman, and he talks to me o

like declamation; you would destroy externals of every kind. You are like the man in one of

o which I close my e

ered Charles; "the pious feeling which accom

Sheffield; "but to put up images in England in order

England," replied Charles;

it differently:

arles, "whom I have frighten

like d

uth," said Char

g so absurd in it; and one had to be civil and to duck to young girls who were either prim or pert. I have behaved quite r

ry I have endured, in having to stand up to dance, and to walk about with a partner!-ever

rt of table-land on the edge of which Oxley is placed; and they stood still awhile to see

nd towers a sham," said Charles, "because

dancing does not increase but diminishes the intensity of the pleasure you find in music. In like manner, it is a mere piece of pedantry to make a religious nation, like the English, more religious by placing images in the streets; this is not the English way, and only offends us.

"that the English Romanists are sh

reate feelings in the minds of beholders, as Gloucester would do, but they in good, downright earnest worship images, as being more than they seem, as being not a mere outside show. They pay them a religious worship, as having been handled by great saints years

; "do you mean to say that a person is a sham merely because he mist

answered Sheffield; "but that mode of teaching o

n lecture with Vincent, and which we thought so acute-that habits are created by those very acts in which they manifest themselves when created? We learn to swim well by trying to

mean? In the Romish Church it has a use, I know-I don't know what-but it comes into the Mass. But if

dge's wig is no sham, yet it has a history. The Queen, at her coronation, is said to wear a Roman Catholic vestment, is that a sham? Does it not still typify and impress upon us the 'divinity that doth hed

roduction of unmeaning p

nd retaining; it may be natural to retain, even while the use fails, unnatural t

against Bateman?

the realities as well as the externals: perhaps they wish to use the piscina as well as to have

ere was one near us who, on leaving, had a present from the ladies of an entire set, and a dozen pair of worked slippers into the bargain. But it's all fitting, if preaching is the great office of the clergy. Next comes the Sacrament, and has

dress, and cannot; are you then prepared to call it a sham? Answer me this single question-Why does a clergyman wear a sur

oy should be taught to read the Liturgy; and he asks, Why send a person to the University for three or four years at an enormous expense, why teach him Latin and Greek, on purpose to read what any boy

too; he did not know what to say; when the conv