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A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Watson Fox, B.A. of Wadham College, Oxford My brother left Rugby at Midsummer, 1836, and began his residence at Wadham College, Oxford, in October of the same year.
His correspondence during his career at Rugby has shown a steady development of mind, and a healthful progress in divine knowledge and grace. I cannot refrain from observing, how much more happy was his course than that of many enjoying similar privileges, who neglect opportunities, waste time, and, worse than all, quench the impressions which the grace of God is making on their hearts, instead of cultivating and carefully improving them.
But the object of this memoir is instruction, not panegyric, and I shall not hesitate, therefore, freely to expose the errors into which the subject of it fell; for as much instruction may be derived from the warning voice of those who have erred (if duly heeded), as from the example of those who have walked according to the right rule.
The removal from school to college is a very critical period of life; the reins of personal discipline are of necessity somewhat loosened—the boy has been merged in the man, the toga virilis assumed, whilst too often no advance in manliness of mind or strength of character has been acquired, so needful for the scenes of temptation that are in store.
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