Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the Encouragements Offered to Diligent Students, and the Rewards Conferred on Successful Students, in the University of Cambridge: To which is Prefixed, a Collection of Maxims, Aphorisms, &c. Designed for the Use of Learners |
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... Cambridge . And in order that it may not be misunderstood , the reader is especially re- quested to bear in mind ... Cambridge , are " the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for enquiring into the state , discipline , studies , and ...
... Cambridge . And in order that it may not be misunderstood , the reader is especially re- quested to bear in mind ... Cambridge , are " the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for enquiring into the state , discipline , studies , and ...
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... Cambridge ; " and the documents relating to them published by direction of the Commissioners . Other available sources of information within the reach of the compiler have been employed , besides the assistance of several friends and ...
... Cambridge ; " and the documents relating to them published by direction of the Commissioners . Other available sources of information within the reach of the compiler have been employed , besides the assistance of several friends and ...
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... Cambridge : " In the present divided state of the Church , it is much to be feared that systems widely different would be taught in different dioceses . In large bodies , like our Univer- sities , no man , however able and learned , can ...
... Cambridge : " In the present divided state of the Church , it is much to be feared that systems widely different would be taught in different dioceses . In large bodies , like our Univer- sities , no man , however able and learned , can ...
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... CAMBRIDGE is a lay Corporation , pos- sessing privileges under charters of the Crown , and Acts of Parliament , or by prescription . The earliest royal letters patent which can now be traced as authentic , are of the reign of Henry III ...
... CAMBRIDGE is a lay Corporation , pos- sessing privileges under charters of the Crown , and Acts of Parliament , or by prescription . The earliest royal letters patent which can now be traced as authentic , are of the reign of Henry III ...
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... Cambridge . The works of Bacon and Newton are , at this moment , influencing its Studies for good . ' One happy ... Cambridge , that its violation seems almost beyond the region of thought . " What above all other things gives us hope ...
... Cambridge . The works of Bacon and Newton are , at this moment , influencing its Studies for good . ' One happy ... Cambridge , that its violation seems almost beyond the region of thought . " What above all other things gives us hope ...
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Page 122 - ... books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 36 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 139 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 28 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 10 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 11 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 143 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Page 5 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.
Page 10 - ... a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ?...
Page 122 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.