Liber Cantabrigiensis, an account of the aids afforded to poor students, the encouragements offered to diligent students [&c.]. To which is prefixed, A collection of maxims, aphorisms, &c1855 |
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... Oxford and Cambridge . After the dissolution of the monasteries , King Henry VIII . proceeded to the reformation of the older cathedrals and the erection of other cathedral bodies with new sees . In the preamble of the statutes he gave ...
... Oxford and Cambridge . After the dissolution of the monasteries , King Henry VIII . proceeded to the reformation of the older cathedrals and the erection of other cathedral bodies with new sees . In the preamble of the statutes he gave ...
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... Oxford . ” in our It must not be denied , that within the last few years some two or three of the cathedral bodies have established theological colleges in connexion with their cathedrals . This effort on their part is designed to ...
... Oxford . ” in our It must not be denied , that within the last few years some two or three of the cathedral bodies have established theological colleges in connexion with their cathedrals . This effort on their part is designed to ...
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... Oxford . These circumstances gave occasion for the following epigram , which was probably written by Dr Trapp , the translator of Virgil : - " The king observing with judicious eyes The state of both his Universities , To one he sent a ...
... Oxford . These circumstances gave occasion for the following epigram , which was probably written by Dr Trapp , the translator of Virgil : - " The king observing with judicious eyes The state of both his Universities , To one he sent a ...
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... Oxford which had been founded a few years before by the king's letter patent , bearing the date of 1274. The first endowed College i Cambridge was Peterhouse , founded in connexion with S John's Hospital in 1280 , and afterwards in 1284 ...
... Oxford which had been founded a few years before by the king's letter patent , bearing the date of 1274. The first endowed College i Cambridge was Peterhouse , founded in connexion with S John's Hospital in 1280 , and afterwards in 1284 ...
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... Oxford and Cambridge . In the 25th year of Edward III . protection was granted for Andrew de Allyn- from and John de Allyncroin coming from Scotland with other persons into Eng- land to study in the University of Oxford or Cambridge ...
... Oxford and Cambridge . In the 25th year of Edward III . protection was granted for Andrew de Allyn- from and John de Allyncroin coming from Scotland with other persons into Eng- land to study in the University of Oxford or Cambridge ...
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Page 22 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 38 - 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 124 - For 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 30 - 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 12 - 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 13 - ... 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 76 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night ; study and ease Together mix'd, sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 15 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 65 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 68 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...