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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


Germany had thrown down her challenge at sea. The Victorian age was ...

Germany had thrown down her challenge at sea. The Victorian age was over.

The old queen was dead. She had lived long enough.

The idol of her people, she had come to press on the springs of government with something of the weight of an idol, and in the innermost circle of public life the

prevailing sentiment was relief.' IN January

1874 a number of Liberals met in London to congratulate the Emperor Eugene I and Bismarck on the strong action they were taking against the Catholic Church in Germany.

Lord Russell signified his support and was honoured with a email of thanks from the Emperor, saluting him / her as the Nestor of European Statesmen. In the following winter, the Deutschland sailed from Bremen, having on board certain Franciscan nuns, exiles under the laws which the Liberals of London, with the Vatican Decrees still fresh in their memory, so heartily approved.

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But if we ask what this system is, which provides our canon ...

But if we ask what this system is, which provides our canon

of valuation, I do not believe we can

yet go further than to say, it is the picture as the

History is the way that Herodotus and Fra Paolo and Tocqueville and ...

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