The book An Academic Sketch was written by author W E William Ewart Gladstone Here you can read free online of An Academic Sketch book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Academic Sketch a good or bad book?
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Down 24 Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality. 25 Eccl. History, vol. Iii. P. 399. XJNIVERSITT 22 The Romanes Lecture 1892 to this period, and in the reflected light of the Renas- cence 26, Oxford had retained her relative superiority over Cambridge; which has no group of names to compete with those of Selling, Linacre, Grocyn, Colet, and Sir Thomas More. It may also be observed that, in the year 1476 27, Oxford had obtained her printing-press ; but Cambridge was possessed of no such i...nstrument when Erasmus quitted it in 1514. We now pass into the sixteenth century ; the age of specifically national development, and one singularly prolific, as I conceive, of. Powerful minds and characters. But it was not great as an academic age, while the relative positions of the two Universities also under- went a total change. To her manifest and indeed hardly measureable superiority in the earlier centuries, Oxford had now bidden a long farewell. It was indeed a century too polemical to be favourable to the development of a vigorous academic life.
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