The Privileges of the University of Cambridge: Together with Additional Observations on Its History, Antiquities, Literature, and Biography, Volume 2Longman, 1824 |
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Page 189 - Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...
Page 165 - THERE is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions ; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness ; the Maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity ; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Page 183 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Page 136 - If to spurn at noble praise Be the passport to thy heaven, Follow thou those gloomy ways; No such law to me was given, Nor, I trust, shall I deplore me, Faring like my friends before me; Nor an holier place desire Than Timoleon's arms acquire, And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
Page 66 - Observations on the present Collection of Epistles between Cicero and M. Brutus, representing several evident marks of forgery in those Epistles , and the true state of many important particulars in the life and writings of Cicero.
Page 107 - God amongst all us Protestants I might once see but one that would win like praise in doing like good for the advancement of learning and virtue. And yet though he were a Papist, if any young man given to New Learning (as they termed it) went beyond his fellows in wit, labour, and...
Page 74 - ... the Church, to whose service by the intentions of my parents and friends I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either...
Page 100 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 111 - Kendal, a town characterized to be lanifaii glorid et industria prcfcellens, casually wetting his cloth in water in his passage to London, exposed it there to sale on cheap terms, as the worse for wetting ; and yet, it seems, saved by the bargain. Next year he returned again, with some other of his townsmen, proffering drier and dearer cloth to be sold ; so that within...
Page 124 - If a Roman Catholic believe that to be really the body of Christ, which another man calls bread, he does no injury thereby to his neighbour. If a Jew do not believe the New Testament to be the Word of God, he does not thereby alter anything in men's civil rights. If a heathen doubt of both Testaments, he is not therefore to be punished as a pernicious citizen.