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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: occasions--from bitterness, and helped him to laugh where narrower
natures would have only snarled,--he is, in many respects, a type of
those Lowland Scots, who long preserved his jokes, genuine or
reputed, as a common household book. {16} A schoolmaster by
profession, and struggling for long years amid the temptations
which, in those days, degraded his class into cruel and sordid
pedants, he rose from the mere pedagogue to be, in the best sense of
the word, a courtier: "One," says Daniel Heinsius, "who seemed not
only born for a court, but born to amend it. He brought to his
queen that at which she could not wonder enough. For, by affecting
a certain liberty in censuring morals, he avoided all offence, under
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