The Quarterly Review, Volume 171William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1890 |
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... century in the year 1887 . A continuous life of 450 years , during the whole of which it has held a conspicuous place among English schools , has pre- served for Eton a distinction which was at first conferred upon it by its royal ...
... century in the year 1887 . A continuous life of 450 years , during the whole of which it has held a conspicuous place among English schools , has pre- served for Eton a distinction which was at first conferred upon it by its royal ...
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... century ago as the best of all school books ; why Keate sub- mitted to teach for twenty - five years from the same texts which had been used at Eton for a century , he the contemporary of Blomfield and Monk , and the inheritor of ...
... century ago as the best of all school books ; why Keate sub- mitted to teach for twenty - five years from the same texts which had been used at Eton for a century , he the contemporary of Blomfield and Monk , and the inheritor of ...
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... century earlier , had brought Italian knowledge out of Italy , and Petrarchism was taking the place of Scho ... centuries are rather educational than conventual . In Lan- castrian times , besides the royal foundations , and Wykeham's ...
... century earlier , had brought Italian knowledge out of Italy , and Petrarchism was taking the place of Scho ... centuries are rather educational than conventual . In Lan- castrian times , besides the royal foundations , and Wykeham's ...
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... century of restora- tion , ' beginning with Strawberry Hill and Fonthill Abbey Gothic , and proceeding_through the ... centuries is a part of the history of the country ; and this continuity was a reality at Eton . We can no longer see ...
... century of restora- tion , ' beginning with Strawberry Hill and Fonthill Abbey Gothic , and proceeding_through the ... centuries is a part of the history of the country ; and this continuity was a reality at Eton . We can no longer see ...
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... century will spare the stalls and seats ( good of their kind and very costly ' ) which the liberality of the Etonians of 1848 put in the place of Godolphin's pavement and stalls ; though it is possible they may think that those who did ...
... century will spare the stalls and seats ( good of their kind and very costly ' ) which the liberality of the Etonians of 1848 put in the place of Godolphin's pavement and stalls ; though it is possible they may think that those who did ...
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