Quote#Education
I should have all manner of tenderness for the right of the College;…
Quote byWilliam Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper · 1665–1723
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Devit v. College of Dublin (1720). Gilbert Eq. Ca. 248; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 242..
English (original)
I should have all manner of tenderness for the right of the College; they are nurseries of Religion and Learning, and therefore all donations for increase and augmentation of their revenue are to be liberally expounded.
— William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
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