The old statesman who governed England, at an age when most men are unfit to govern their own families, remembered a whole generation of states men who were dead before Prince Albert was born.
Bagehot comments on the vast experience of an old statesman compared to Prince Albert's relative youth.
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The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
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