A History of the University of CambridgeLongmans, Green, & Company, 1888 - 232 pàgines |
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Pàgina 210 - with the especial object and intent of providing persons desirous of academical education, and willing to live economically, with a College wherein sober living and high culture of the mind may be combined with Christian training, based upon the principles of the Church of England.
Pàgina 61 - ... subdivided down to the first chapter. He then again divided until he had reached a subdivision which included only a single sentence or complete idea. He finally took this sentence and expressed it in other terms which might serve to make the conception more clear. He never passed from one part of the work to another, from one chapter to another, or even from one sentence to another, without a minute analysis of the reasons for which each division, chapter, or sentence was placed after that by...
Pàgina 199 - That in the ancient English and Irish Universities, and in the Colleges connected with them, the interests of religious and useful learning have not advanced to an extent commensurate with the great resources and high position of those bodies...
Pàgina 158 - God hath set up two lights to enlighten us in our way; the light of reason, which is the light of His creation, and the light of Scripture, which is an after-revelation from Him. Let us make use of these two lights, and suffer neither to be put out.— Dr Whichcote.
Pàgina 193 - Among the changes which they think might be at once adopted with advantage and safety, they would suggest the expediency of abrogating by legislative enactment every religious test exacted from members of the University before they proceed to degrees, whether of bachelor, master, or doctor, in Arts, Law, and Physic.
Pàgina 20 - Here, by [the] way, whosoever shall consider in both Universities the ill contrivance of many chimneys, hollowness of hearths, shallowness of tunnels, carelessness of coals and candles, catchingness of papers, narrowness of studies, late reading and long watching of scholars, cannot but conclude, that an especial Providence preserveth those places.
Pàgina 196 - THE SYNDICATE, admitting the superiority of the study of Mathematics and Classics over all others as the basis of General Education, and acknowledging therefore the wisdom of adhering to our present system in its main features, are nevertheless of opinion that much good would result from affording greater encouragement to the pursuit of various other branches of Science and Learning which are daily acquiring more importance and a higher estimation in the world...
Pàgina 94 - Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon are more conned and discussed than Livy was then. Demosthenes is as familiar an author as Cicero used to be ; and there are more copies of Isocrates in use than there used to be of Terence.
Pàgina 132 - The first Master, Lawrence Chaderton (one of the translators of the Bible), gave on more than one occasion ample proof of his sympathies with the Puritan party. Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, Thomas Shepherd, and not a few other names which occupy a conspicuous place in the" pages of Cotton Mather's New 1 Marvell: The Rehearsal Transpm 'd. England (among them the founder of Harvard College) were some of those who received their earliest education within its walls
Pàgina 196 - The Syndicate appointed to consider whether it is expedient to afford greater encouragement to the pursuit of those studies for the cultivation of which Professorships have been founded in the University, and if so, by what means that object may be best accomplished...