"Chancellorship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Isle of Man, others were bribed in lavish fashion—and Sandwich presided over Cambridge. The students rose in a body and walked out when he came among them; but that mattered little to the brazen fellow. To complete the ghastly comedy, it happened that four years later the Chancellorship fell vacant, and the Duke of Grafton, who was only second to "Jemmy Twitcher" in wickedness, was chosen ...
— Side Lights • James Runciman
... see. Had your father risen to be at the top of the profession by that time, with a promise of the chancellorship in his pocket ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various |
