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| | §11. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. XIV. Historians. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and ... |
 | | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, though neither a great historian nor a profound theologian, deserves to be remembered in the annals of English literature as well as in those of English public life, primarily in its religious and educational aspects. |
| | Neither the outward circumstances of Stanley’s career, which ran smoothly, as became that of the kindliest of men, with the most favourable of family connections, nor the greater part of his extraordinary activity as a preacher, lecturer and writer, must detain us here. |
| | Marked early for preferment, he found himself a canon of Canterbury in 1851—the year in which his exertions as an academical reformer had secured to him the secretaryship of the Oxford university commission; and, in the following year, he started on his memorable tour in Egypt and Palestine, in attendance on the prince of Wales. |
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