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Quotation from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

“I have never seen Oxford since, excepting its spires, as they are seen from the railway.”

John Henry Newman

Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Part VI (Project Gutenberg #19690 (Dent edition))

Portrait of John Henry Newman

The last line of the narrative of his Anglican years, after leaving Oxford on 23 February 1846.

Citation: "I have never seen Oxford since, excepting its spires, as they are seen from the railway." — John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Part VI (Project Gutenberg #19690 (Dent edition)). (id apologia-pro-vita-sua-q6)

Portrait: Cardinal Newman Portrait (cropped), Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain.

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