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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... writing a history of Eton College , not a tractate of educa- 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 ...
... writing a history of Eton College , not a tractate of educa- 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 ...
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... writing , and the rudiments of such Latin as was then current . These were not only clerkly boys - princes of the blood and scions of noble houses were sent by their parents to * History of Latin Christianity , ' Book XIII . , ch . vi ...
... writing , and the rudiments of such Latin as was then current . These were not only clerkly boys - princes of the blood and scions of noble houses were sent by their parents to * History of Latin Christianity , ' Book XIII . , ch . vi ...
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... writer styles " an honest college of sad priests " ; and Beaufort , the bene- factor of St. Cross , near Winchester , may have pleaded the cause of the aged and infirm . However this may be , the king made the scheme his own , declaring ...
... writer styles " an honest college of sad priests " ; and Beaufort , the bene- factor of St. Cross , near Winchester , may have pleaded the cause of the aged and infirm . However this may be , the king made the scheme his own , declaring ...
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... writing . The official press was all - powerful and entirely dependent . The Guelf Fund , which now amounts to nearly three million pounds . a year , was in great measure devoted to its support . Originally expended in seeking out the ...
... writing . The official press was all - powerful and entirely dependent . The Guelf Fund , which now amounts to nearly three million pounds . a year , was in great measure devoted to its support . Originally expended in seeking out the ...
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... writers .. In grace and clearness of style he has no rival among his contemporaries . As novelist , poet , dramatist , and historian , his reputation is firmly established . Born at Kreuzberg in Silesia in 1816 , he is connected with ...
... writers .. In grace and clearness of style he has no rival among his contemporaries . As novelist , poet , dramatist , and historian , his reputation is firmly established . Born at Kreuzberg in Silesia in 1816 , he is connected with ...
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