Excerpt from Selected Essays, Vol. 1 of 2
One incident of his schooldays is commemorated in the first Letter to Archdeacon Singleton: 'i was at school and college with the Archbishop of Canterbury (howley); fifty-three years ago he knocked me down with the chessboard for checkmating him, and now he is attempting to take away my patronage. I believe these are the only two acts of violence he ever oom mitted in his life.'
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