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The Glory of English Prose / Letters to My Grandson

Chapter 6 No.6

Word Count: 575    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

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specimens of fine prose, but I believe that here and there, in that generally

judges of England have often been gentlemen of taste, scholarship, and eloquence. I have foun

and in 1624, delivered in the case of the Earl of Oxford t

roduce such a peer in one and the selfsame name and title. I find in all this time but two attainders of this noble family, and those in stormy and tempestuous time, when the government was unsettled, and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself, that affection may not press upon judgment, for I suppose that there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and fame, and

rldom of Oxford was created in 1142, and has disappeared

ity"; so that it has long been more reputable in the House of Lords to be a descendant than an ancestor. But among the older great families there still remains a pride that has descended unsullied through many generations, which serves as

at honourable descent from famous ancestors; it d

lovin

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