"Freeman is really a first-rate man, and knows about Federal Republics as well as about the Roman conquest."

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Historians from EnglandLiberal Party (UK) politiciansPeople from BirminghamUniversity of Oxford facultyUniversity of Oxford alumni
Original Language: English

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Lord Acton, letter (21 May 1869), quoted in Lord Acton and His Circle, ed. Abbot Gasquet (1906), p. 354