A Versatile Professor

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Excerpt from A Versatile Professor: Reminiscences of the Rev. Edward Nares, D.D., Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, 1813-1841 The title prefixed to these reminiscences does not more indicate the person with whom they are mainly concerned, than a characteristic of the work itself. Turning now and again from gay to grave, it treats of the social as well as the scholastic life in which its subject moved, and derives much of whatever interest it may possess from its many points of contact with various kinds of people - princes and peers, parsons and professors, lawyers and legislators. In its personal application I use the epithet versatile to indicate rather the wide interests of an active mind and the manifold sympathies of a large heart, than any superficiality in the quest for knowledge, or any restless insincerity of disposition. To Edward Nares this versatility was doubtless a source both of strength and weakness, contributing in some ways to the success, and in others to the comparative failure, of his career. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.