It wanted the sort of man of who Wellington had said that ...
It wanted the sort of man of who Wellington had said that he could go straight from school with two N.C.O’s. and fifteen privates and get a shipload of convicts to Australia without trouble.
The Headmaster of Westminster claimed that of his sixth form two-thirds could read Caesar and hail could read Xenophon at sight.
Perhaps the Queen was thinking of this when she told Mr Gladstone that education was ruining the health of the Upper Classes. But contrast the account we have of Sedbergh in the fifties.
I It was part of the tradition that everyone should have read Homer, Thucydides and Sophocles before he
went up.' Everything depended on
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With the reconquest of India and of the reform of the Army ...
With the reconquest of India and of the reform of the Army after the Crimea, it needed them in increasing numbers; and it was satisfied that the best way to get them w
Yet in the far distance I can well conceive the world turning ...
Yet in the far distance I can well conceive the world turning wistfully in imagination, as to the culminating achievement of European culture, to the life of the Un
It had rested on two assumptions which experience was showing to be ...
It had rested on two assumptions which experience was showing to be untenable: that the production of wealth by the few, meant, somehow, and in the long run, welfare for the many; and