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It was one of Lord Salisbury's paradoxes that only uncontentious legislation should be brought before Parliament: if it were contentious, then public opinion was not ripe for it.

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To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy.

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Of historic method, indeed, nothing wiser has ever been said than a word which will be found in Gibbon's youthful Essay on the Study of Literature. Facts, the young sage instructs us, are of three kinds: those which prove nothing beyond themselves, those which serve to illustrate a character or explain a motive, and those which dominate the system and move its springs.

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To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man. To pursue it gave him rank as a citizen, the promise of a vote, and a share in a solid civilization.

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A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.

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Being published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honour is almost greater than the pleasure.

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The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another.

G. M. Young

G. M. Young

G. M. Young

Born: 1882

Died: 1959 (aged 77)

Bio: George Malcolm Young was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age.

Known for:

Victorian England - Portait of an Age (1936)
Portrait of an age (1936)
Charles I and Cromwell (1935)

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