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    ‘It’s Rudimentary, My Dear Ruddiman’ 1714
  • A Good & Useful Citizen: John Passmore Edwards 1850
  • Alexander Bain: The Weaver Philosopher 1830
  • Alexander Christison: The Lammermuir Latinist 1800
  • Alexander Murray: The Shepherd Scholar 1808
  • The remark was suggestive of many things, and it left me picturing the progress of the class and thinking of the way in which, for so many succeeding generations, the classics have been steeped with the peculiar atmosphere of the public schools. What proportion of Englishmen who have learnt classics at school feel that Theocritus or Plato or Thucydides signify, above all, English playing fields, English class-rooms, and the scent of English limes? Of course in such an atmosphere much evaporates - the restlessness of the Greek intellect and many other things. There is even absurdity in the way in which some story of perverted passion is pleasantly droned through a drowsy summer afternoon. But the whole
    Ancient Greek in Camden Town 1920
  • Bursary Brothers: The Case of Alexander Shewan 1866
  • Cheap Classics: George Miller of Dunbar 1802
  • Crossing the Line: A Classical Maritime Tradition 1987
  • Free Classical Poses at Liverpool’s Parthenon Rooms 1850
  • George Howard’s Ancient Labourers 1889
  • Gilbert Collins, and the Arabic Grammar 1836
  • Jack Lawson: From Pit to Parliament 1900
  • James Lackington’s Temple of the Muses 1794
  • John Armstrong’s GPO Pheidippides 1935
  • John Askham Shoemaker Poet 1890