NOTES 



When I could not sleep for the cold, 



I had fire enough in my brain, 

 And builded, with roofs of gold, 



My beautiful castles in Spain ! 



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" When in heaven the stars " : from Tennyson's Speci- 

 mens of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse. 



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"increasing God's honour and bettering man's es- 

 tate " : Bacon's statement of his purpose in writing the 

 Advancement of Learning. 



For example, etc.: could the sentence beginning thus be 

 written in better form? 



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Rumford (1738-1814) : Benjamin Thompson, Count Rum- 

 ford, an eminent scientist. Rumford was born in America 

 and educated at Harvard. Suspected of loyalty to the King 

 at the time of the revolution, he was imprisoned. Acquitted, 

 he went to England where he became prominent in politics 

 and science. Invested with the title of Count by the Holy 

 Roman Empire, he chose Rumford for his title after the 

 name of the little New Hampshire town where he had 

 taught. He gave a large sum of money to Harvard College 

 to found the Rumford professorship of science. 



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eccentric: out of the centre. 



A LIBERAL EDUCATION (1868) 



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A Liberal Education: from Science and Education; also 

 published in Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews. 



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Ichabod: cf. 1 Sam. iv, 21. 



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senior wranglership : in Cambridge University, England, 

 one who has attained the first class in the elementary divi- 

 sion of the public examination for honors in pure and mixed 

 mathematics, commonly called the mathematical tripos, those 

 who compose the second rank of honors being designated 

 senior optimes, and those of the third order junior optimes. 

 The student taking absolutely the first place in the mathe- 

 matical tripos used to be called senior wrangler, those fol- 

 lowing next in the same division being respectively termed 

 second, third, fourth, etc., wranglers. Century Dictionary. 

 double-first: any candidate for the degree of Bachelor of 

 Arts in Oxford University who takes first-class honors in both 

 classics and mathematics* is said to have won a double-first. 



