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In that gay capital whilst taking advantage of libraries, and sitting at the feet of the Gamaliels of the French Bar, he associated with gamesters and courtezans, and was at length left with resources barely sufficient to enable him to return to Canada.
His tastes and sympathies were all-embracing. His creed and his practice were alike catholic. All was fish that came to his net. He sat at the feet of muscular Gamaliels, and campaigned with veterans of the classics. He hobnobbed with prize-fighters, and was the choice spirit in the ethereal feasts of poets. He was king of the ring, and facile princeps in the Greek chorus.
"It always seems to me," said Lady Laura, "that nothing is to be gained in politics by sitting at the feet of the little Gamaliels." "But the great Gamaliels will not have a novice on their footstools." "Then sit at no man's feet. Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it? and that this is specially true of a man's own self?
All tutors cannot be, and at that time few dreamed of being, men like Jowett and T. H. Green, Gamaliels at whose feet undergraduates sat with enthusiasm, "did EAGERLY frequent," like Omar Khayyam. In later years Tennyson found closer relations between dons and undergraduates, and recorded his affection for his university.
To render these institutions analogous to the Teachers' Seminary, their pupils should first study law, medicine, engineering, and so forth, and then sit at the feet of their Gamaliels to be initiated into the secrets of the Professorial chair, that they may in turn become Professors of those branches to classes of their own.
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