Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive NotesSeeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1882 - 56 páginas |
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Página 24 - Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university ; who found such an immenseness of wit, and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in any thing, yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing...
Página 32 - His Latin and Greek stood him in little stead; he was to give an account only of the state of his soul; whether he was of the number of the elect ; what was the occasion of his conversion ; upon what day of the month and hour of the day it happened; how it was carried on, and when completed. The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, Whether he was prepared for death.
Página 40 - To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother.
Página 9 - The crowns of some chaplains, viz. all the skin so far as the tonsure went, these diabolical imps flayed off in scorn of their clergy.
Página 32 - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that, upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
Página 17 - College we found all the great quadrant full of the leaves of Dunce, the wind blowing them into every corner. And there we found a certain Mr.
Página 24 - ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
Página 32 - ... till at length the head of the college came out to him, from an inner room, with half a dozen night-caps upon his head, and religious horror in his countenance. The young man trembled ; but his fears increased, when, instead of being asked what progress he had made in learning, he was examined how he abounded in grace.
Página 35 - Probably the heads of houses reasoned on a priori principles, when they arrived at this remarkable conclusion. Inconsequence of the honesty, frankness, and consistency of his opinions, Mr. Hearne ran his head in danger, when King George came to the throne which has ever since been happily settled in the possession of the Hanoverian line. A Mr. Urry, a Non-juror, had to warn him, saying, " Do you not know that they have a mind to hang you if they can, and that you have many enemies who are very ready...
Página 41 - ... hat, or a square cap of above twice the usual size ; white stockings, thin Spanish leather shoes ; his cloaths lined with tawdry silk, and his shirt ruffled down the bosom as well as at the wrists. Besides all which marks, he has a delicate jaunt in his gait, and smells very philosophically of essence.