James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude FRSEwas an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth23 April 1818
James Anthony Froude quotes about
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.