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There was this conviction in Froude that since History is based on achievement, and since the history of the Antilles was so genetically corrupt, so depressing in its cycles of massacres, slavery, and indenture, a culture was inconceivable and nothing could ever be created in those ramshackle ports, those monotonously feudal sugar estates.
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The innate tendency to aberration which I have noted in Froude, and his admittedly treacherous memory, were the primary causes of his impeachment of Carlyle; and tracing these in operation, it becomes clear that they landed him in a preconceived notion of Carlyle's relations with his wife, which was radically wrong, but to which, in spite of correction, he persistently adhered.
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Carlyle's mortification was, in Froude's opinion, but justice to the memory of his oppressed wife - and so the whole truth must be told.
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He speaks of remorse/[Page xxviii]/for not succeeding better in his work, remorse for idleness when he was resting: of his lecturing he says: "my sorrow in delivery was less, my remorse after delivery was much greater"; and when writing the 'Jane Welsh Carlyle' paper, being interrupted by Froude, he says: "Froude is now coming, and with remorse
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Many persons unjustly speak of Froude as having violated the confidence of his friends in publishing the letters of Mr. and
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr
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Many persons unjustly speak of Froude as having violated the confidence of his friends in publishing the letters of Mr. and
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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'Norman Conquest,' Froude's 'Armada,' or Napier's 'Peninsular War.'
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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Another proponent of the theory of natural Irish inferiority was James Anthony Froude, a professor of history at Oxford University.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The set had belonged to Hurrell Froude, an Anglican friend of Newman's, and of his Oxford Movement associates one of those most attracted to Catholicism.
Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: Liturgical Items (Part 3 of 3) 2009
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Froude died in 1836, and when Newman subsequently had the chance to take some books from Froude's library, he chose these breviaries.
Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: Liturgical Items (Part 3 of 3) 2009
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