The Office of the Historical Professor: An Inaugural Lecture Read in the Museum at Oxford, October 15 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Office of the Historical Professor: An Inaugural Lecture Read in the Museum at Oxford, October 15

There is one point of difference, whether I am to count it as a difference for gain or loss, between him who now speaks and him who spoke last in the same character, which comes strongly home to me when I am tempted to glance, as he did, at the history of the post in which I am called to succeed him. As a rule, the younger succeeds the elder. It is by a rather singular lot that I am called on to take the place which has been held in succession by two living men, by two personal friends, by two of the men of whom.

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