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Excerpt from Eton Reform A Gentleman of high authority has in a somewhat whimsical form laid before the world a minute and critical account of Eton, and has been followed by unfriendly and uncandid writers in a popular magazine and in an influential weekly review. At a time of unexampled prosperity, a school, which is in no ordinary sense public, finds itself charged with scandalous deficiencies, assumed to exist on the evidence of one, who a...

Excerpt from A Guide To, Vol. 2: Modern English HistoryThe Second Part of this work is twice as long as the First Part, although it runs over only four years and a few months, or about one-third of the time surveyed in the First Part. This want of proportion, although excessive, is in a great measure justified by the ex cessive value of the work done for the British Commonwealth in the years now surveyed. These years, 18 30 - 3 5, are full of ...

Excerpt from A Guide to Modern English History, Vol. 1 Spain and Portugal, were beaten and warmed into hearty combativeness. The same provocation drove the great hordes of Russia into wholesome patriotism. And then a fourth people, greater than these three, but divided and bound, was at last able to combine, though imperfectly, and to avenge itself on the French oppressor. This fourth people was the German. There were two great German States,...

Excerpt from Eton ReformA sincere jealousy for the honour of the good and liberal men with whom, and under whom, I serve, and a conscious ness of being able to save from misapprehension the true friends of the great school in which I'am employed, urged me some time back to publish a free commentary on certain publications, which were likely, if unnoticed, to give needless pain to many old Etonians, if not to in¿ict an injury on Eton.About the ...

Excerpt from Ionica Oh, lost and unforgotten friend, Whose presence change and chance deny, If angels turn your soft proud eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst r...

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