A London Education
On leaving Bristol College, I had quiet thoughts of attending Oxford, which would have pleased my mother; but my father disliked the aristocratic leanings of the University and objected to the doctrinal tests which were then required. Notwithstanding that Oxford exacted assent to the Thirty-Nine Art...
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Published in | The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot p. 23 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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United States
Yale University Press
24.09.2013
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Summary: | On leaving Bristol College, I had quiet thoughts of attending Oxford, which would have pleased my mother; but my father disliked the aristocratic leanings of the University and objected to the doctrinal tests which were then required. Notwithstanding that Oxford exacted assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles, few Oxford-bred men could give any rational account of them, or the weary controversies out of which their nomenclature arose. The English nation has no opinion of them at all; since our fathers fell asleep there has been no bona fide discussion of them. My own faith was more in keeping with my mother’s |
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ISBN: | 9780300195545 0300195540 |