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 - English literature |
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... 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 revenues and stately buildings . It is not our intention to ...
... 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 revenues and stately buildings . It is not our intention to ...
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... English education during the last 450 years . We search these pages in vain to find when the great changes were made which the New Learning introduced into schools ; what effect the Reformation had on the studies of the place ; how ...
... English education during the last 450 years . We search these pages in vain to find when the great changes were made which the New Learning introduced into schools ; what effect the Reformation had on the studies of the place ; how ...
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... English undefiled , the age of Chaucer , Gower , and Langland ; but English Latin , as we read it in the chronicles and cor- respondence of the time , was barbarous , and its barbarism was made more conspicuous by the tawdry use of ...
... English undefiled , the age of Chaucer , Gower , and Langland ; but English Latin , as we read it in the chronicles and cor- respondence of the time , was barbarous , and its barbarism was made more conspicuous by the tawdry use of ...
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... English cells of foreign monasteries . This was the act , not of the Founder , but of his father , Henry V. Henry VI . , if he had been as wise as Solomon himself , could hardly have made a better use of money thus received from the ...
... English cells of foreign monasteries . This was the act , not of the Founder , but of his father , Henry V. Henry VI . , if he had been as wise as Solomon himself , could hardly have made a better use of money thus received from the ...
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... English history , and , like him , escaped the ordeal of a time of revolu- 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 ...
... English history , and , like him , escaped the ordeal of a time of revolu- 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 ...
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