"Dr. Pusey was the only member of the Tractarian School to whom the Evangelical party had any kind of attraction. His piety was not only most real, but it was of a popular and impressive character. He had also a way peculiarly his own, and entirely consistent with sincerity and simplicity, of rounding off the sharp edges of the strong and offensive statements of others, and thus presenting them under a far less odious aspect to those who disliked them. Hence Dr. Pusey had a definite and most important place in the movement. While it was Mr. Newman's office to stimulate, and his misfortune to startle, to Dr. Pusey, on the other hand, belonged the work of soothing and the ministry of conciliation. He was the St. Barnabas of the movement."
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Frederick Oakeley, Historical Notes on the Tractarian Movement (A.D. 1833—1845) (1865), p. 49
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Edward Bouverie Pusey
Edward Bouverie Pusey (22 August 1800 – 16 September 1882) was an English churchman and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford.
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