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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
Essay 7: A Sketch

Author: John Morley

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Language: English

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CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. III.
Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1904

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W. R. GREG: A SKETCH.

Characteristics 213

Born at Manchester in 1809 215

Mathew Henry Greg 217

Goes to the Edinburgh University in the winter of 1826-1827 220

Sir William Hamilton 221

Mother died, 1828 224

The Apprentice House 225

De Tocqueville 229

Goes abroad 231

_Genius of the Nineteenth Century_ 232

Starts in business on his own account at Bury, 1833 235

Marries the daughter of Dr. Henry in 1835 236

Moves to the Lakes 238

Sir George Cornewall Lewis 244

Offered a place on the Board of Customs, 1856 244

Letter to James Spedding, May 24, 1856 245

Marries again in 1874 the daughter of Mr. James Wilson 246

Death of his brother-in-law, Walter Bagehot (187