An Introduction to a Course of Lectures on the Early Fathers, Now in Delivery in the University of Cambridge (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Until the Margaret Professorship of Divinity became actually vacant by the death of the distinguished Prelate who last held it, and I was called up to Cambridge as a candidate for the chair, and looked into the conditions of the endowment, I was not adequately aware of the character or extent of the duties it imposes. On perusing however the deed by which the Margaret Professor is bound, I could not but see that a state of things was contemplated by the Foundress very dif ferent from that which now obtains - residence in the University, almost throughout the year; studies nearly unintermitted; the professors.

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