We write in an age and in a country in which the ...
We write in an age and in a country in which the highest position would not have availed to screen the moat elevated delinquent.
They are simply the record of a truth perfectly understood and recognized by the English people.
From The Times, 16 December 1866: For men
who took their reading seriously, the standard was high and the classical impression lasting.Except Brougham, who was educated at Edinburgh, it is not easy to recall any
public man of eminence who
could have talked science with Prince Albert; butmany of them were competent scholars, several were
excellent scholars, and the imprint of a thorough, if narrow, classical education is visible in Hansard whenever the speaker is Peel or Lord John Russell, Gladstone or Derby. ...next: >>
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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
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
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