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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'.


It was equally diffused over Whigs and Tories, who could point back ...

It was equally diffused over Whigs and Tories, who could point back to the great examples of Fox and Windham; and the Radicals, who on principle might have been expected to be averse to a purely literary discipline, numbered by accident in their ranks the most illustrious classical scholar and the most exacting classical tutor of the age-George Grote and the elder Mill. The Universities were definitely Anglican.

At Cambridge a man could not graduate, at Oxford he could not matriculate, without signing the Thirty-Nine Articles The Commons in 1834 passed a Bill enabling dissenters to graduate.

The Lords threw it out.

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Practically, it was not a matter of much consequence, as dissenters were ...

Practically, it was not a matter of much consequence, as dissenters were not, as a rule, of the class who Oxford and Cambridge served, and a new private ve

Liberal, accessible, and utilitarian, it might have been expected that the example ...

Liberal, accessible, and utilitarian, it might have been expected that the example of the Londoners would have been widely

In their internal discipline they were overgrown with a picturesque tangle of ...

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