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... ' tis public folly feeds , together with much concentrated invective , prob- ably not all justified by the facts , and certainly far too strong for reproduction in these pages . It is a curious and , at first sight , B 2 Eton . 3.
... ' tis public folly feeds , together with much concentrated invective , prob- ably not all justified by the facts , and certainly far too strong for reproduction in these pages . It is a curious and , at first sight , B 2 Eton . 3.
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It is a curious and , at first sight , a startling fact that while many English institutions then re- garded as immortal have since succumbed to the solvent action of scepticism or yielded to the steady progress of reform , the schools ...
It is a curious and , at first sight , a startling fact that while many English institutions then re- garded as immortal have since succumbed to the solvent action of scepticism or yielded to the steady progress of reform , the schools ...
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... fact , the nucleus of Eton was a small colony of five and thirty boys , who came with William of Waynflete from the older school in 1441. When the late Bishop Wilberforce was promoted from the diocese of Oxford ( in which Eton is ...
... fact , the nucleus of Eton was a small colony of five and thirty boys , who came with William of Waynflete from the older school in 1441. When the late Bishop Wilberforce was promoted from the diocese of Oxford ( in which Eton is ...
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... fact the long - lost composition of an Eton master of the Sixteenth Century . ' Whatever be the literary merit of ' Ralph Roister Doister , ' it stands in small danger of rivalry . Per- haps the only literary work by any of Udall's ...
... fact the long - lost composition of an Eton master of the Sixteenth Century . ' Whatever be the literary merit of ' Ralph Roister Doister , ' it stands in small danger of rivalry . Per- haps the only literary work by any of Udall's ...
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... fact that though a head master was dismissed in 1611 on the strange ground of being a pluralist , yet there was no instance on record before 1876 of an assistant master's dismissal from Eton . The abrupt removal of Mr. Browning reminded ...
... fact that though a head master was dismissed in 1611 on the strange ground of being a pluralist , yet there was no instance on record before 1876 of an assistant master's dismissal from Eton . The abrupt removal of Mr. Browning reminded ...
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