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… ‘learning,’ was workable and desirable: ‘When the link between patronage and learning was entire, then all who deserved fame were in a capacity of attaining it.’ 4 The decline of the system of patronage throughout the first half of the …
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… ranging from middle-class aspirations to gentility, to a veneration of the gentleman’s code, to an ideal of military fame. And it was not infrequent to find that military men were involved in duels. There were also instances when the …