Memorabilia Cantabrigiæ: Or, An Account of the Different Colleges in Cambridge; : Biographical Sketches of the Founders and Eminent Men; with Many Original Anecdotes; Views of the Colleges, and Portraits of the FoundersE. Harding, 1803 - 341 pages |
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Page 282 - ... memory serves him, occupies between five and six hundred printed quarto pages, and must therefore have filled more pages of manuscript than the number mentioned in the text, has this quatrain at the end of the volume — With one good pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still.
Page 320 - Which three persons aforesaid shall give out a subject, which subject shall, for the first year be one or other of the perfections or attributes of the Supreme Being, and...
Page 318 - TERMS of this university are three, and are fixed by invariable rules. October or Michaelmas Term begins on the 10th of October, and ends on the 16th of December. Lent or January Term begins on the 13th of January, 'and ends on the Friday before Palm Sunday. Easter or Midsummer Term begins on the Wednesday se'nnight after Easter-day* and ends on the Friday after Commencement day.
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Page 125 - Bodleian library, and professor both of Hebrew and Arabic in the university of Oxford. He was interpreter and secretary of the oriental languages during the reigns of Charles II. James II. and William III. He was perfectly qualified to fill this post, as he could converse in the languages which he understood. There never was an Englishman, in his situation of life, who made so great a progress in the Chinese.
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