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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... 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 origin , its situation under the shadow of Windsor Castle , its great ...
... 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 origin , its situation under the shadow of Windsor Castle , its great ...
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... whole building would have exceeded that of King's College Chapel . ' Without transepts , presbytery , or distinct chapels to excite the imagination , the Collegiate Church of Eton would have been smaller than most of our cathedrals ...
... whole building would have exceeded that of King's College Chapel . ' Without transepts , presbytery , or distinct chapels to excite the imagination , the Collegiate Church of Eton would have been smaller than most of our cathedrals ...
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... whole natural that it should be so . Schools are less in the high road and trade of thought than Universities , and their politics have a more local colour . Neither at Eton nor at Winchester is much English history to be learnt ...
... whole natural that it should be so . Schools are less in the high road and trade of thought than Universities , and their politics have a more local colour . Neither at Eton nor at Winchester is much English history to be learnt ...
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... whole system of public school discipline was one of winking at real or fictitious offences . Everything was forbidden , and everything permitted . Drinking at the Christopher ' was as much and as little unlawful as bathing and boating ...
... whole system of public school discipline was one of winking at real or fictitious offences . Everything was forbidden , and everything permitted . Drinking at the Christopher ' was as much and as little unlawful as bathing and boating ...
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... whole of this vast machinery has been assiduously worked against the late Emperor and his supporters . A smaller man than Freytag would scarcely dare to be independent . At the same time his acknowledged mastery of the German language ...
... whole of this vast machinery has been assiduously worked against the late Emperor and his supporters . A smaller man than Freytag would scarcely dare to be independent . At the same time his acknowledged mastery of the German language ...
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