The Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester: Collected from Records, Registers, Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Evidences |
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Page 163 - ... consisted of two parts, rightly forming two establishments, the one subordinate to the other. The design of the one was to lay the foundations of science ; that of the other to raise and complete the superstructure. The former was to supply the latter with proper subjects, and the latter was to improve the advantages received in the former.
Page 164 - ... purchases of lands, and raising his building, which would take up a considerable time ; but that he might bestow his earliest attention, and his greatest care in forming and perfecting the principal part of his design, and...
Page 166 - Wyncheftre in Oxenford, It was then vulgarly called the New College, which became in time a fort of proper name for it, and, in common ufe, continues tq be fo to this day.
Page 271 - It is of white marble, of very elegant workmanfhip, confidering the time, with his effigies in his pontifical robes lying along upon it ; and on a plate of brafs, running round the edge of the upper table of it, is the following infcription in Latin verfe, of the ftyle of that age.
Page 2 - Pliilofophical and Political Hiftory of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the Eaft and Weft Indies, tranflated from the French of the Abbe Rcynall.
Page 66 - ... have each a loaf of coarser bread, one mess, and a proper allowance of beer, with leave to carry away with them whatever remains of their meat and drink after dinner.
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Page 85 - ... desolation of the church, by relieving poor scholars in their clerical education ; and to establish two colleges of students, for the honour of God and increase of his worship,' for the support and exaltation of the Christian faith, and for the improvement of the liberal arts and sciences ; hoping and trusting that men of letters and various knowledge, and bred up in the fear of God, would see more clearly and attend more strictly to the obligation lying upon them to observe the rules and directions...
Page 68 - ... or fifh of a better fort ; and on the eves of thofe holidays, and that of the founder's obit, they had an extraordinary allowance of four gallons of ale among them. The hundred cafual poor were fed in a place called Hundred-meneihall ; each of them had a loaf of inferior bread of five marks...