Dictionary of national biography Volume 6 Sir Leslie Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...of a local paper (1846-74) gave him an additional field for his opinions, which at all times, and on all subjects, he stated with a candour that took no account of consequences. Converted to Ehrenology by George Combe, with whom e formed an intimate association, he never abandoned it. Phrenology and the doctrine of necessity form the groundwork of all his writings. Among his early friends was Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), who while young and uncelebrated was for some time a member of his household. In his autobiography (" Phases of Opinion and Experience during a Long Life," 1884) he gives an interesting account of her, and George Eliot"s "Life as related in her Letters and Journals" (1885) is largely based on correspondence with "the I Brays" (i.e. Bray, his wife, and his sister-in! law, Miss Sara Hennell). A postscript to I the " Phases of Opinion and Experience, dictated rather less than three weeks before his I death, which took place on 5 Oct. 1884, conI tains the following: "My time is come, and I in about a month, in all probability, it will be finished.... For fifty years and more I j have been an unbiassed and an unprejudiced seeker after truth, and the opinions I have come to, however difl"erent from those usually held, I am not now, at the last hour, disposed to change. They have done to live by, they will do to die by." Bray"B Phases of Opinion and Experience during a Long Life, 1884; Mathildo Blind"s George Eliot (Eminent Women Ser.), 1883; j George Eliot"s Life, by J. V. Cross, 1885; Life jand Letters of Professor W. B. Hodgson, 1884, I p. 364 J. M. S. I BRAY, EDWARD ATKYNS (17781857), poet and miscellaneous writer, the only son of Edward Bray, solicitor, and manager of the Devonshire estates of the I Duke of Bedford, was born at the Abbey Ho... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dictionary of national biography Volume 6 (Sir Leslie Stephen)