Ah, Oxford on the surface, but Liverpool below.

 

Ah, Oxford on the surface, but Liverpool below.
--
An unnamed Whig's comment in the Commons on Gladstone's budget, Feb. 1860, in Walter Bagehot, "Mr. Gladstone," National Review (July 1860).

 

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Harry Barton: What?
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