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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... tion ; but the one should in some degree include the other ; and we hope that in some future edition room may be found for a comparison of Eton scholarship with that of other schools at different periods of their history . We have but ...
... tion ; but the one should in some degree include the other ; and we hope that in some future edition room may be found for a comparison of Eton scholarship with that of other schools at different periods of their history . We have but ...
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... tion ; and Lord Bacon's sneer may be met not only by Gray's and Wordsworth's praise of the Royal Saint , ' but by the sober judgment of an historian who has no weakness for weak kings : - ' Henry , ' says Bishop Stubbs , ' was perhaps ...
... tion ; and Lord Bacon's sneer may be met not only by Gray's and Wordsworth's praise of the Royal Saint , ' but by the sober judgment of an historian who has no weakness for weak kings : - ' Henry , ' says Bishop Stubbs , ' was perhaps ...
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... tion , ' beginning with Strawberry Hill and Fonthill ' Abbey Gothic , and proceeding_through the courageous blundering of Wyattville , Essex , Blore , and Wilkins , to the timid correctness of to - day , we have not yet found a style ...
... tion , ' beginning with Strawberry Hill and Fonthill ' Abbey Gothic , and proceeding_through the courageous blundering of Wyattville , Essex , Blore , and Wilkins , to the timid correctness of to - day , we have not yet found a style ...
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... tion : hockey , trap bat and ball , the rolling circle , ' prisoners ' base , even marbles . At Eton , as elsewhere , games have been reduced to rule and method , and form a more important part of a boy's life than they did before the ...
... tion : hockey , trap bat and ball , the rolling circle , ' prisoners ' base , even marbles . At Eton , as elsewhere , games have been reduced to rule and method , and form a more important part of a boy's life than they did before the ...
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... tion Saturday , when the Provost of King's and the Posers with their quaint hoods used , year after year , to drive up in the yellow chariot and four from Salt Hill . Fellowships are no more , and recent times have seen the abolition of ...
... tion Saturday , when the Provost of King's and the Posers with their quaint hoods used , year after year , to drive up in the yellow chariot and four from Salt Hill . Fellowships are no more , and recent times have seen the abolition of ...
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