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"That's pretty well calculated to annoy, eh?
Also, by the way, in its careless rapture it twice misrelates the relative pronoun; and Froude was a master of style.

Or what do you say to this ?-- "'But neither Elizabeth nor later politicians of Elizabeth's temperament desired the Church of England to become too genuine.
It has been more convenient to leave an element of unsoundness at the heart of an institution which, if sincere, might be dangerously powerful.

The wisest and best of its bishops have found their influence impaired, their position made equivocal, by the element of unreality which adheres to them.

A feeling approaching to contempt has blended with the reverence attaching to their position, and has prevented them from carrying the weight in the councils of the nation which has been commanded by men of no greater intrinsic eminence in other professions.' "Yet another faulty relative! "'Pretensions which many of them would have gladly abandoned have connected their office with a smile.

The nature of it has for the most part filled the Sees with men of second-rate abilities.
The latest and most singular theory about them is that of the modern English Neo-Catholic, who disregards his bishop's advice, and despises his censures; but looks on him nevertheless as some high-bred, worn-out animal, useless in himself, but infinitely valuable for some mysterious purpose of spiritual propagation.'" Brother Copas laid the open volume face-downward on his knee--a trivial action in itself; but he had a conscience about books, and would never have done this to a book he respected.
"Has it struck you, Mr.Simeon," he asked, "that Froude is so diabolically effective just because in every fibre of him he is at one with the thing he attacks ?" "He had been a convert of the Tractarians in his young days, I have heard," said Mr.Simeon.
"Yes, it accounts for much in him.