1797 THOMAS DALE. MSs Poem on the Slavery of Sin by William Cowper Biographer & John Ruskin's Professor. Manuscript Good men are bettered by

Good men are bettered by afflictions: 'Tis hard for the best to keep their spirits so humble

The present has been said by many to be the last serious Christian writing attempting to theologize and orient dreams and visions into the thought life of the Church

His father served as the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford and died when Robert was just three years of age

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1797 THOMAS DALE. MSs Poem on the Slavery of Sin by William Cowper Biographer & John Ruskin's Professor. Manuscript Good men are bettered byCharming little holographic verse and appended autograph of Rev. Thomas Dale [1797 1870], the first ever Professor of English, the editor of the Works of William Cowper, and Professor to John Ruskin. Thomas Dale was a minister of the Church of England in the Evangelical school of the Clapham Sect, William Wilberforce, etc., A man of some learning, while he was minister at St. Matthews [Denmark Hill], he was invited to fulfill the role of the first