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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... interest to those generations who lived in them , the times of the Reform- ation and of the Civil War . In both , Eton , like other institutions , was purged for a time and then restored ; but no great events * Mr. Clark thinks the ...
... interest to those generations who lived in them , the times of the Reform- ation and of the Civil War . In both , Eton , like other institutions , was purged for a time and then restored ; but no great events * Mr. Clark thinks the ...
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... interest which enhances the value of the books which they contain . The principal ornaments of the College Library at Eton are the additions made by Provosts Savile , Wotton , and Godolphin , and the bequests of Bishop Waddington and ...
... interest which enhances the value of the books which they contain . The principal ornaments of the College Library at Eton are the additions made by Provosts Savile , Wotton , and Godolphin , and the bequests of Bishop Waddington and ...
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... interest , the history of cricket and boating from the earliest times . Other games , besides those which flourish at the present day side by side with these great summer institutions , come under observa- side Eton College . 25.
... interest , the history of cricket and boating from the earliest times . Other games , besides those which flourish at the present day side by side with these great summer institutions , come under observa- side Eton College . 25.
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... interest for their minds , to take the place of the degrading amusements of our ancestors . Volunteer drill , cricket , cycling , and football , have done much to strengthen the manhood of England at an important crisis . What a school ...
... interest for their minds , to take the place of the degrading amusements of our ancestors . Volunteer drill , cricket , cycling , and football , have done much to strengthen the manhood of England at an important crisis . What a school ...
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... interest with which he has invested an interesting subject . And we hope that a subject of national importance so ably treated will attract other readers besides those who are led to it by the natural piety which binds all Eton men to ...
... interest with which he has invested an interesting subject . And we hope that a subject of national importance so ably treated will attract other readers besides those who are led to it by the natural piety which binds all Eton men to ...
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