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VOS DEOS LAUDAMUS:
THE CONSERVATIVE JOURNALIST'S ANTHEM.
'As a matter of fact, no man living, or who ever lived—not Cæsar or Pericles, not Shakespeare or Michael Angelo—could confer honour more than he took on entering the House of Lords.'—Saturday Review, December 15, 1853.
'Clumsy and shallow snobbery—can do no hurt.'—Ibid.
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O Lords our Gods, beneficent, sublime,
In the evening, and before the morning flames,
We praise, we bless, we magnify your names.
The slave is he that serves not; his the crime
