Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the Encouragements Offered to Diligent Students, and the Rewards Conferred on Successful Students, in the University of Cambridge: To which is Prefixed, a Collection of Maxims, Aphorisms, &c. Designed for the Use of LearnersPrinted at the University Press, 1855 - 554 pages |
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... gave his " decree unto the sea , that the waters should not pass his commandment . " Now , if nature should intermit her course , and leave altogether , though it were for a while , the observation of her own laws , if these principal ...
... gave his " decree unto the sea , that the waters should not pass his commandment . " Now , if nature should intermit her course , and leave altogether , though it were for a while , the observation of her own laws , if these principal ...
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... gave annually two Gold Medals , each of the value of fifteen guineas , to two commencing Bachelors of Arts , who not having been lower than Senior Optimes , have shewn themselves the greatest proficients , after examination , in ...
... gave annually two Gold Medals , each of the value of fifteen guineas , to two commencing Bachelors of Arts , who not having been lower than Senior Optimes , have shewn themselves the greatest proficients , after examination , in ...
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... gave by will , among his other bequests , to the company of Cloth - workers , the yearly rents of £ 5 to University College , Oxford , and £ 5 to Peter - house , Cambridge , towards the educa- tion of poor scholars . This benefaction to ...
... gave by will , among his other bequests , to the company of Cloth - workers , the yearly rents of £ 5 to University College , Oxford , and £ 5 to Peter - house , Cambridge , towards the educa- tion of poor scholars . This benefaction to ...
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... gave £ 12 a year to found two Scholarships for scholars from the Grammar - school at Wakefield . Mr Ralph Scrivener gave a benefaction for founding one Scholarship , now of the value of £ 14 per annum . Walter Worlick and Elizabeth his ...
... gave £ 12 a year to found two Scholarships for scholars from the Grammar - school at Wakefield . Mr Ralph Scrivener gave a benefaction for founding one Scholarship , now of the value of £ 14 per annum . Walter Worlick and Elizabeth his ...
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... gave by his executors the manor of Risby , with lands , tenements , & c . , in the county of Lincoln , for the maintenance of two Junior Fellows and eight Scholars , and two poor Scholars . By indenture made between his executors and ...
... gave by his executors the manor of Risby , with lands , tenements , & c . , in the county of Lincoln , for the maintenance of two Junior Fellows and eight Scholars , and two poor Scholars . By indenture made between his executors and ...
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Page 120 - ... 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 26 - 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 34 - 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 61 - 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 9 - ... 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 141 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Page 137 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 116 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 9 - 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; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 5 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.