Life of

Edward Bouverie Pusey

DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH; REGIUS PROFESSOR OF

HEBREW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

BY

HENRY PARRY LIDDON, D.D.

D.C.L.; LL.D.; LATE CANON AND CHANCELLOR OF ST. PAUL'S

EDITED AND PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY THE

REV. J. O. JOHNSTON, M.A.

VICAR OF ALL SAINTS, OXFORD; AND THE

REV. ROBERT J. WILSON, M.A.

WARDEN OF KEBLE COLLEGE

HON. FELLOW AND FORMERLY TUTOR OF MERTON COLLEGE

IN FOUR VOLUMES: VOL. I (1800-1836)

With Portraits and Illustrations

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16TH STREET

1893

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PREFACE

DR. PUSEY died September 16, 1882. At the large gathering that met at Oxford on the occasion of his funeral five days later, it was generally felt, that the one man who was fitted to undertake his

Biography, was Dr. Liddon. In the afternoon of that day, the matter was mentioned to him at a smaller meeting of intimate friends; and a few days later he accepted the responsibility.

From the moment that he undertook the duty, he felt the heavy burden that lay upon him. His private diary from that time gives constant, and at first even daily, expression to this feeling. To him it was no mere literary undertaking; it was a task in which his deepest affections and interests were concerned. It was the setting forth the life-work and delineating the character of one who was to him— with all his intense and devoted affection-his dilectissimus amicus,' to use the words of his diary, 'the most dear and revered of friends, of whose friendship I have all along been so utterly unworthy.' But, besides this, Dr. Pusey was also, in Dr. Liddon's eyes, one of the prime leaders and, as time went on,

the main support of that great Church movement, which, in his opinion, re-invigorated and even revivified the religion of England.

Adequately to discharge the task he had undertaken, Dr. Liddon put aside as far as possible all other literary labours; and his sense of the responsibility thus resting on him was amongst the causes that determined him at once to resign, to the great regret of many, his Professorship of Exegesis in the University.

The duties connected with the Canonry of St. Paul's still remained. That position-to the various demands of which he was keenly sensitive, and around which he was ever accumulating fresh obligations— left him very little unbroken leisure: all of it, however, he ungrudgingly devoted to preparing and writing this Biography. Indeed, as conceived on the plan he had sketched out for himself, his new task constantly deprived him of the holidays he required, and even made him deny himself the relaxation and rest which his physicians frequently enjoined, and which his health imperatively demanded.

How elaborate the plan of the 'Life' as projected by Dr. Liddon was, those only can realize who were intimate with his methods of work, and with his conception of what was due to all that was said, written, and done by him whom, after Cardinal Newman's example, he used affectionately to call 'ò μéyas.' To him at the outset, any letter whatever of Dr. Pusey's or Mr. Keble's was a precious treasure, which he hardly ventured to curtail, much