Some speeches are actions.

Some actions are too trivial to deserve the name.

But if Froude was incapable of understanding Parliamentary government, he very seldom attempted to deal with it.
The English in Ireland is a rare and not a fortunate, exception.

The House of Tudor was far more congenial to him than either the House of Stuart or the House of Brunswick.
Froude delivered his Inaugural Lecture on the 27th of October, 1892.
The place was the Museum, which stands in the parks opposite Keble, and the attendance was very large.

In the history of Oxford there have been few more remarkable occasions.