| Edward Edwards - 1859 - 940 pagini
...body wanted learning; was felicitously replied to by Sir William Browne: The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, Fur Whigs allow no force but argument. The earliest Library -keeper mentioned by name in the University-... | |
| Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1860 - 300 pagini
...W. Browne, of Peter-house, wrote the following epigram on the occasion : The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. « Dr. Trapp, of Wadham, wittily replied : Our royal master saw, with heedful eyes, The wants of his... | |
| Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, Theodore C. Wilks, Charles Lockhart - 1861 - 434 pagini
...wauled learniug." To which answered Sir William Browne, for Cambridge:— " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." (2) Mr. Brydges did not lite to see his namesake's success. Captain Rodney had been posted November... | |
| Royal College of Physicians of London - 1861 - 474 pagini
...Oxford at the very time that the library was removed to Cambridge. Browne commemorated it thus : — The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal skill, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. He took the degree of doctor... | |
| William Munk - 1861 - 458 pagini
...Oxford at the very time that the library was removed to Cambridge. Browne commemorated it thus : — The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal skill, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. Iie took the degree of doctor... | |
| 1863 - 648 pagini
...of Sir William Browne, the physician, was answered by him thus : — " ' The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. ' " Johnson did Sir William the justice to say, ' It was one of the happiest extemporaneous productions... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 pagini
...retorted, as it was said, impromptu : — The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For lories know no argument but force ; With equal care, to Cambridge...books he sent, For whigs allow no force but argument. Ill this year, the kmg being desirous of visiting Hanover, appointed a committee of the privy council... | |
| William Everett - 1865 - 418 pagini
...Oxford men were, answered it by this still more condensed and pithy verse. " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." Yes ! It is not always safe to take the opinion of a corporate body about itself; but if there is one... | |
| Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pagini
...presence of Sir William Browne, the physician, was answered by him thus : The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. Johnson did Sir William the justice to say, ' it was one of the happiest extemporaneous productions... | |
| John Booth - 1865 - 400 pagini
...presence of Sir William Browne, the physician, was answered by him thus : The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. Johnson did Sir William the justice to say, ' it was one of the happiest extemporaneous productions... | |
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