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practised." Notwithstanding his unfavourable opinion of that university, an anecdote he used to tell in connection with it is worth preserving.[1] When at Oxford with Lord Wycombe, Canning, then a freshman, was pointed out to him by Lord Lansdowne as a youth likely to become the Prime Minister of England.[2]

  1. ↑ Bentham, Works, x. 88.
  2. ↑ Ibid. x. 221.
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