Note 51 — Chapter XXIX · ISLE OF MAN
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That was when the Archdeacon of Oxford acted as “Chairman of Hardy’s Committee”; the Bishop favouring Gladstone. Mansel’s epigram is famous, beginning—
When the versatile Prelate of Oxford’s famed city Spied the name of the chairman of Hardy’s Committee, Said Samuel (from Samson his metaphor seekin’) “You have ploughed with my heifer,—that is my Archdeacon.” &c., &c. (see Burgon’s Life of Mansel).