Walks in Oxford;: Comprising an Original, Historical, and Descriptive Account of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings of the University: with an Introductory Outline of the Academical History of Oxford. To which are Added, a Concise History and Description of the City, and Delineations in the Environs of Oxford, Volumul 1W. Baxter, 1818 - 388 pagini |
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... learning , a name bestowed on the higher public Schools , pre- viously to the adoption of the term University . The latter term originated either in the universality of sciences taught , or in what was taught being learned ab universis ...
... learning , a name bestowed on the higher public Schools , pre- viously to the adoption of the term University . The latter term originated either in the universality of sciences taught , or in what was taught being learned ab universis ...
Pagina iii
... learning might naturally be expected to fall . In this melancholy condi- tion they are said to have been found by King ALFRED ; who , having , by the complete overthrow and consequent expulsion of the Danes , succeeded in restoring to ...
... learning might naturally be expected to fall . In this melancholy condi- tion they are said to have been found by King ALFRED ; who , having , by the complete overthrow and consequent expulsion of the Danes , succeeded in restoring to ...
Pagina vi
... learning : " Logic , Music , and Arithmetic , were read " by John , a monk of St. David's : Geometry " and Astronomy were professed by John , a " monk and colleague of St. Grymbald , a man of sharp wit , and immense know- .66 66 66 66 ...
... learning : " Logic , Music , and Arithmetic , were read " by John , a monk of St. David's : Geometry " and Astronomy were professed by John , a " monk and colleague of St. Grymbald , a man of sharp wit , and immense know- .66 66 66 66 ...
Pagina vii
... learning ; which , on the contrary , flourished so exceedingly , that , ere his death , this father of his country had the happiness of being able to say , that " all his " Bishops ' sees were filled with prelates of " sound learning ...
... learning ; which , on the contrary , flourished so exceedingly , that , ere his death , this father of his country had the happiness of being able to say , that " all his " Bishops ' sees were filled with prelates of " sound learning ...
Pagina viii
... learning , and a liberal patron of scholars , not only treated the City with the utmost se- verity , but left the University to languish in neglect . However , from the ancient Statutes of the Collegiate Church or Chapel , which Robert ...
... learning , and a liberal patron of scholars , not only treated the City with the utmost se- verity , but left the University to languish in neglect . However , from the ancient Statutes of the Collegiate Church or Chapel , which Robert ...
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Walks in Oxford: Comprising an Original, Historical, and ..., Volumul 1 W. M. Wade Vizualizare completă - 1817 |
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Pagina 163 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Pagina 133 - Like Leaves on Trees the Race of Man is found, Now green in Youth, now with'ring on the Ground, Another Race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So Generations in their Course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Pagina 133 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth. "A city stands on Argos...
Pagina 163 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Pagina 140 - No more the matchless skill I call unkind, That strives to disenchant my cheated mind. For when again I view thy chaste design, The just proportion, and the genuine line; Those native portraitures of Attic art, That from the lucid surface seem to start; Those tints, that steal no glories from the day, Nor ask the sun to lend his streaming ray...
Pagina 246 - Genera, which he had got half printed from Holland, to be written against him ; but he afterwards detained him a month, without leaving Linnaeus an hour to himself the whole day long , and at last took leave of him with tears in his eyes, after having given him the choice of living with him till his death, as the salary of the Professorship was sufficient for them both.
Pagina 85 - This is the emblem of a good tutor or fellow of a college, who is set to watch over the youth of the society, and by whose prudence they are to be led through the dangers of their first entrance into the world.
Pagina 337 - Near the Village of BLENHEIM, On the Banks of the Danube, BY JOHN DUKE of MARLBOROUGH, The Hero not only of his Nation, but of his Age...
Pagina 169 - J516, recites that the founder, to the praise and honour of God Almighty, the most holy body of Christ, and the blessed Virgin Mary, as also of the apostles Peter, Paul, and Andrew, and of St. Cuthbert and St.
Pagina 337 - Monument deiigned to perpetuate the Memory of the Signal Viftory Obtained over the French and Bavarians, Near the Village of Blenheim, On the Banks of the Danube, By JOHN Duke of...