Note 57 — VOLUME V. (continued 3)
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The savage despair of the Member is finely pourtrayed by the trousers. A total indifference to moral guilt or personal danger is argued by his thus appearing before the Vice-Chancellor; that gentleman justly regarding the wearing of trousers as the most atrocious of moral offences, and having lately deservedly excluded a distinguished wrangler who had been guilty of them, from a Fellowship of his College.