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Apologia pro Vita Sua, by John Henry Newman
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Title: Apologia pro Vita Sua
Author: John Henry Newman
Release Date: October 31, 2006 [EBook #19690]
Language: English
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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 seriousl