Peter Ackroyd quote: The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" ...

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe in pursuit of a peripatetic scholarship.

~ Peter Ackroyd ~

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