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who had acted as sheriff of Cambridgeshire. The son had had a
account of an amount of eccentricity that had led at least to one
beyond making the statement that he had acted on a sudden
refused to accept the plea of insanity, and he was sentenced, like his
indeed of a large portion of the civilised world, were much occupied
drawn by what many people considered the restless and interfering
He had gone so far as to send a fleet into Greek waters for the
he had offended France and Russia.
Much political excitement was aroused, and there were keen and
something like a vote of censure of the foreign policy of the
lasted five nights, and the fine speech in which Lord Palmerston, a
the dusk of one day to the dawn of the next."
Apart from these troubles abroad, the country, on the whole, was in a
had literature fallen behind. Perhaps it had rarely shown a more
Mill in logic, Herbert Spencer in philosophy, Charles Darwin in
this year Tennyson brought out his "In Memoriam," and Kingsley his
dying out before the later; that Lord Jeffrey, the old king of
after this spring, be seen no more among the Cumberland hills and
the delight of the young reading world more than fifty years before,
Bristol.
In the Academy's annual exhibition the same old names of Landseer
daughter-in-law, Lady Douro, the field of Waterloo), Maclise,
movement, having a foreign origin, though in this case an. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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