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

Ejected in 1662

Includes the Pope's desire to gain power in Germany to expel the Lutherans

[Luther Rice]

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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