Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or oxford:
“We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)