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At the age of twenty he entered Christ Church at Oxford the most aristocratic of colleges with more attainments than most scholars reach at thirty, and was graduated in 1831 "double-first class," distinguished not only for his scholarship but for his power of debate in the Union Society; throwing in his lot with Tories and High Churchmen, who, as he afterward confesses, "did not set a due value on the imperishable and inestimable principles of human liberty."
He had come of a good family; he had received the best education which England could give him; he was quick in speech and ready in thought; he had a double-first degree, and would at once have a fellowship; he had also an uncle who was very rich and occasionally very disagreeable, and a father who was very poor, and of whom he heard all men say that he was one of the most agreeable fellows that ever lived.
He merely added one phrase, to say that his friend's "better luck" consisted in his being the only double-first of his year, and one short postscript, which he took good care that Bertram should not see; and then he fastened his letter and sent it to the post. "Tell mamma not to be very unhappy." That was the postscript which he added.
Most people are quite content if they can put a poem written in English into Greek; you reverse the process, and, having coolly given expression to your thoughts in Greek, condescend to translate them into your native tongue. I only wish you had been at Cambridge, or what do they call the place? Girton. It would have been a joke to see you come out double-first."
They are the cleverest men of their schools; they are the intellectual stars of their Varsities. I was at Oxford with Malim. He was a sort of tin god. Double-first and all that. Just like all the rest of them. They get what is looked upon as a splendid appointment under Government.
Farquhar was related to everybody in Virginia that is, everybody who was anybody before the war and she could count at that moment seventy-five cousins, some of them first and some of them double-first cousins, at the White Sulphur. Mrs. Farquhar's remark meant that all these cousins and all their friends the South over would stand by Miss Benson socially from that moment.
he sung out as Bertram entered the room. "Make way for the double-first the hero of the age, gentlemen! I am told that they mean to put up an alabaster statue to him in the Common Room at Trinity. However, I will vote for nothing more expensive than marble." "Make it in pie-crust," said Bertram, "and let Parker be the artist."
Farquhar was related to everybody in Virginia that is, everybody who was anybody before the war and she could count at that moment seventy-five cousins, some of them first and some of them double-first cousins, at the White Sulphur. Mrs. Farquhar's remark meant that all these cousins and all their friends the South over would stand by Miss Benson socially from that moment.
"Oh yes! booked for a Fellow and a double-first; so you ought to know him, you know."
Your genius is adapted to dispersing, perhaps, rather than collecting." "I dare say it is, sir." "And I suppose you never heard of a man with a what is it you call your degree? a double-first going behind a counter. What sort of men are the double-lasts, I wonder!"
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