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ttermany apiieared in 1H.V.I; his equally leaincd 

 and temperate paiier on ' r.-n.i. n.-i.- of Keligi.ms 

 Thought in England. I68H-I7">>.' in Kaux/* mill 

 ./femeira (lsh. At length in Istil he was Vli-.-i.-il 

 Rector, Inn. though In* made an exemplary liea<l, 

 tin 1 spring and elasticity of earlier da>s were gone. 

 Ill Isii-j In- n, .in ir. 1 tin- accoiiipli-hi-d Emilia Frances 

 Strong. HI tcrw aid- ljuly Pilke. who hcl|>ed liiiu t<i 

 iniikt' Lincoln a social nnil intelhvtual centre for a 

 in Id inin-li widi-r than tin- walls of Oxford. Iiuvvn 

 to his last illness ami hi- death at Han 'gate, .'filth 

 .Inly ISS4. IIP lived wholly for study, maintaining a 

 m>-di:c\al rathrr than nuxlcrn ideal of tin- life of 

 tin- scholar ax a sutticicnt end in itself. 



I-'.M-rvthing Mark Pattison wrote was character- 

 istic; nowhere else among contcm|ioraries coulil be 

 foninl such fiillni of know ledge and earnestness 

 of thought. shaped i-M-r into terse anil vigorous 

 English. Yet his standard of |erlcction was -o 

 high that his actual achievement is far more 

 suggestive than demonstrative of his powers, ami 

 tin- gieate-i project of hi> life the study of Scalier 

 lins a fragment, printed hy Professor Nettle- 

 ship in vol. i of Paulson's collected Essays ( 1889). 



Besides the hooks already named lie published 

 Suggestions on .! <!> mii-nl Organisation (1868); 

 admirably annotated editions of Pope's Essay on 

 Mnn (1889) and Satire* and Epistles ( 1872) ; Isaac 

 ~'!>-ltil4 (1875), which grew out of 

 his Scaliger studies ; Millmi, almost the best liook 

 in the ' English Men of Letters' series ( 1879) ; the 

 Xmnirt* of Milton (1883); and Sermons (188Ti). 

 Hi- |Ksthiinioiis .}[ri,ir,irx (ISHTi) was a strikingly 

 fiank judgment nf himself and others even Ids 

 own fatherand a remarkable revelation of 

 a singular moral ami intellectual personality, 

 de-i-ribing, 'without restraint, the whole current of 

 his thoughts and feelings from 1832 to I860.' 



DoBA WVSDLOW PATTOOH, lii sister, was 

 IMHII at Hauxwell, January Iti, 1832, the youngest 

 but one of her father's family. She grew up amid 

 her native Yorkshire niooisa handsome and healthy 

 girl of remarkalile hiimonr. siiiiit. and vigour, anil 

 had her young enthusiasm kindled hy the heioic 

 devotion of r-'lorcnce Nightingale. In Octolier 

 1861, againxt the a<lvi"e of all her family, she 

 Mnrtod a life of labour for others as schoolmistress 

 at Little Wool-ton, near Itletchley, and in the 

 autumn of 1H(U joined the sistcilnHxl of the Cood 

 SamaiitJins at I 'oatham, near Iteilcar. Here 'Sister 

 llora' underwent Hevere discipline, but found solat;e 

 in devoted labours as a mime, lii-t at North 

 iliiiiexliy, near Middli-xhoroiigh, and in !S(M at 

 \Val-all. Ere long she gave herself entirely to 

 ln>s|,ital work, ami her absolute self forget fulness, 

 patience, gentleness, an ,| nkill <|iiickly brought her 

 the adoration of the saint from the rough men and 

 women for whom she sjH-nt her strength. In 

 IsTl -In- left the <;<Mid Samaritan Community, 

 and in IH77 look charge of the municipal epidem'ic 

 hospital at \\alsjill, where the ca.s,. s were mainly 

 of smalliHix. She also found time for exertions 

 on behalf uf unfortunate women, and did much 

 for her |>oor neighl>oiirs in every way. Hut 

 even her strength at last gave wav, and -In- 

 died a true martyr for Christ's nake "at Walsall, 

 December 24, 1878. The whole imputation of the 

 town followed her l-ody to the grave, and the 

 working men erected a monument to her memory 

 in I8H6. 



SeeSuter Dora: A H\".ir.ijhy, by Margaret I/onwUle 

 ( 18HO ) which Mark r.Uwm, with chnctritic touch, 

 term* ' Mw Ixwudale'i romance.' Tullcinache'ii Kr collec- 

 tion* of fattiton ( 1K05). 



Pail. tlK-chiif town of the French department 



of HH.SM-S |'\rcnei-<. on the right bank of the Cave- 



.iii. 'mil.", by rail KSK. of llayonne and 143 



nl Bordeaux. It occupies a rocky height, 



6i23 feet alxive sen level, and commands towards 

 the south nn*t magnificent views of the serrated 

 \'\ renees : indi-ed, for mountain scenery il- situa- 

 tion is surpassed by no other town in France, The 

 ancient capital of the kingdom of Beam and French 

 Navarre, it has a noble live-towered castle, rising 

 to a height of 110 feet, li.-bnilt about KWi.'l by 

 (laston I'hichus, ('mute de Foi\, and restored by 

 l.oni- 1'hilippe and Napoleon III., this castle .c- 

 the liirthjilace of Henri IV., as also of his mother 

 Jeanne d Albret ; and Alxl el Kiuler was a prisoner 

 here in 184X. I5crna<iotte was likewise a native of 

 1'au, which, lievond a statue of King Henri ( I si:; 

 ha- nothing else calling for notice. Linen and 

 chocolate are its chief manufactures; and in the 

 vicinity Jurancon wine (good but strong) is grown, 

 and many swine are fed, whose pork supplies t In- 

 famous '.Jmnbons de Bayonne.' Pan is a great 

 English resort, especially during the winter season 

 (Octolier to Mav ), and is famous for its golf-links. 

 Pop. (1872) 25,'607; (1891) 33,111. See Count 

 H.-nry Russell, Pau, Biarritz, and the Pyrenees 

 (new ed. 1891). 



FaililliUN a port on the left bank of the estu- 

 ary of the Oironoe in France, 30 miles N. by \V. 

 of ISordeaux by rail, is the place from which the 

 best brands of Medoc (claret) are shipped to 

 Bordeaux. Fop. 2216. 



I'illll. It is proliable that no man ever swayed 

 the religious opinions and destinies of mankind so 

 powerfully as Paul of Tarsus, the Apostle of the 

 Gentiles; He was greater than some of the greatest 

 servants of Christ in many single capacities ; a 

 greater preacher than ( 'hrysoslom. a greater mission- 

 ary than St Francis Xavier, a greater theologian 

 than St Thomas of Aquinum, a greater reformer 

 than Luther, a greater organiser than St Gregory 

 the Great. Collectively he exercised over the world 

 a mightier influence not only than all of these put 

 together, but even than his fellow apostles St Peter 

 and St John. The secrets of his unparalleled 

 success were regarded on their human side the 

 secrets of all success in the field of religious ell'ort 

 burning zeal, absolute self-sacrilice, undaunted 

 courage, and a strong conviction that he was ful- 

 filling a ministry to which he had received a s|>ecial 

 call from God. 



Our chief and all but exclusive authorities for 

 his life are the Acts of the Apostles and Ids own 

 epistles. The few particulars added by Christian 

 tradition are highly dubious, and the calumnious 

 inventions of Talmud ic malice and Ehionite heresy 

 may be dismissed with silent contempt. Palcy in 

 his Unrrr I'nii/nnr has shown with wonderful skill 

 and originality how remarkably the credibility of 

 Si I, ukes history i- supported by aut In-lit ic touches 

 of autobiography, even in cases where there is a 

 seeming and superficial discrepancy. He shows us 

 that even the undesigned coincidences can be 

 counted by scores. From combination of the two 

 sources we are able to arrive at a true picture and 

 estimate, though liotli are entirely fragmentary. 

 The life of St Paul is like a manuscript of which 

 the beginning and end are irrecoverably lost. All 

 that we really know of his life lies in the thirty 

 years between .'fii \.n. and 66 A.D., which fmni it- 

 central period. \Ve can only form slight and 



in rlain conjectures respecting Paul's childhood, 



youth, and early manhood, and res]>ecting all that 

 Well him after St Luke drops the curtain upon 

 his first llonian imprisonment with the words, 

 'teaching with all boldness unmoletitedly.' Hut 

 even in this central period the records are quite 

 fragmentary. In 2 Cor. xi. 24-33, written aliout 

 57 A.D., some ten years liefore his death. St Paul 

 briefly alludes to ttie strange and severe diversity 

 of his trials ; and yet of those which he mentions 



