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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... course is adopted at Oxford as regards boys under fifteen , but , as regards Candidates under eighteen , Oxford offers separate classes in Language , Science , and the Arts . In the second place , while at Oxford the names both of ...
... course is adopted at Oxford as regards boys under fifteen , but , as regards Candidates under eighteen , Oxford offers separate classes in Language , Science , and the Arts . In the second place , while at Oxford the names both of ...
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... course was most consistent with the circumstances of the University , and with perfect fairness to Dissenters . In certain quarters this decision was vehemently objected to on two grounds , first , that Oxford was lending its sanction ...
... course was most consistent with the circumstances of the University , and with perfect fairness to Dissenters . In certain quarters this decision was vehemently objected to on two grounds , first , that Oxford was lending its sanction ...
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... course as closely as it is permitted to do ; engrafting on the old studies the new sciences , as far as time will permit without sacrifice of what is more important , but confining its attention and its expectations to the direct ...
... course as closely as it is permitted to do ; engrafting on the old studies the new sciences , as far as time will permit without sacrifice of what is more important , but confining its attention and its expectations to the direct ...
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... course of a recent debate at Cambridge , that the University should endeavour to asso- ciate schools , not scholars . This is a very important suggestion ; but it must not be supposed that it is made now for the first time . I pass by ...
... course of a recent debate at Cambridge , that the University should endeavour to asso- ciate schools , not scholars . This is a very important suggestion ; but it must not be supposed that it is made now for the first time . I pass by ...
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... course of Classical and Mathematical study . To Mr. Derwent Coleridge especially is due the credit of having realized the aspirations of the great poet and philosopher his father , in the form of an English Education suited to the 19th ...
... course of Classical and Mathematical study . To Mr. Derwent Coleridge especially is due the credit of having realized the aspirations of the great poet and philosopher his father , in the form of an English Education suited to the 19th ...
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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.