Some account of the origin and objects of the new Oxford examinations for the title of Associate in arts and certificates, for 1858 |
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... Common Prayer Book , if he offers Paley's ' Hora Pauline ' in lieu thereof . There can be no doubt that these Regulations have been very carefully framed with a view to enlist the ordinary motives of human nature on the side of our holy ...
... Common Prayer Book , if he offers Paley's ' Hora Pauline ' in lieu thereof . There can be no doubt that these Regulations have been very carefully framed with a view to enlist the ordinary motives of human nature on the side of our holy ...
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... common word in an old sense . They call attention to the subject , they leave the choice bonâ fide to the conscience of the parent , whether Churchman or Dissenter , and they put both with perfect fairness on the same footing . Above ...
... common word in an old sense . They call attention to the subject , they leave the choice bonâ fide to the conscience of the parent , whether Churchman or Dissenter , and they put both with perfect fairness on the same footing . Above ...
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... common end . More I need not have said by way of preface had I not observed , since the following pages have been in type , that very indistinct ideas prevail as to the nature of the statute passed at Oxford , and that there is some ...
... common end . More I need not have said by way of preface had I not observed , since the following pages have been in type , that very indistinct ideas prevail as to the nature of the statute passed at Oxford , and that there is some ...
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... common ground on which the noble , the divine , the philosopher , and the engineer , have been glad to meet , whether at the soirées of the aris- tocracy , at scientific societies , or in social clubs . Concurrently with the spread of ...
... common ground on which the noble , the divine , the philosopher , and the engineer , have been glad to meet , whether at the soirées of the aris- tocracy , at scientific societies , or in social clubs . Concurrently with the spread of ...
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... common interest in shielding from discredit . On the one hand , the social prestige which at present attaches to residence in the Universities will clearly not belong to the Asso- ciates . On the other hand , there is little reason to ...
... common interest in shielding from discredit . On the one hand , the social prestige which at present attaches to residence in the Universities will clearly not belong to the Asso- ciates . On the other hand , there is little reason to ...
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Page 145 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 146 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Page 139 - But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you ; and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Page 146 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Page 146 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease : The naked Negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine...
Page 145 - Caesar may : Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus : that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities : And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, Which hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous ; And kill him in the shell.
Page 144 - tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face : But when he once attains the utmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend : So Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 137 - Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Page 157 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares of the whole line, and of one of the parts, are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square of the other part. Let the straight line AB be divided into any two parts in the point C ; the squares of AB, BC are equal to twice the rectangle AB, BC, together with the square of AC.
Page 217 - The elementary parts of Astronomy ; so far as they are necessary for the explanation of the more simple phenomena, without calculation.