A History of the University of CambridgeLongmans, Green, & Company, 1888 - 232 pages |
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Page 208 - 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.
Page 59 - ... 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...
Page 197 - 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...
Page 156 - 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.
Page 191 - 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.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 194 - 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...
Page iii - THE CHURCH OF THE EARLY FATHERS. By ALFRED PLUMMER, DD THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL IN THE Eighteenth Century. By the Rev. JH OVERTON.
Page 194 - 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...
Page 92 - Euripides,' he goes on to say, ' are more familiar authors than Plautus was in your time. Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon are more conned and discussed than Livy was then.