 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 504 pages
...well-known epigram by sir William Browne, which the critics have pronounced to be a good •ne: But the following, by an Oxonian, which gave rise to that...discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning." Sir William Browne's will, an attested copy of which is now before us, is not the least singular of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 518 pages
...but force ; With equal skill, to Cambridge books he sent. For whigs admit no force but argument." But the following, by an Oxonian, which gave rise to that...very well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learniHg." Sir William Browne's will, an attested copy of which is now before us, is not the least... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 508 pages
...least as good : " The king, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his imivprsities, •, .To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why?, , , , That learned body wanted loyalty : . . • i . .-. To Cambri.ige books, as very well discerning, •. . How much that loyal body wanted... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...following, however, by an Oxonian, which is said to have given rise to Sir William's, to surpass it : The king, observing with judicious eyes, The state...Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why i That learned body wanted loyalty: To Cambridge books, as very well discerning How much that loyal... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...occasion appeared the well-known epigram by an unknown hand : " King George, observing with jndicious eyes The state of both his Universities, To Oxford...That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." Retaliated by Sir W. Browne,... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 466 pages
...University, may be attributed to this dereliction of the side which he had embraced in the late reign 9. * To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." The retort, by Sir William Browne,... | |
 | James Henry Monk - Scholars - 1833 - 466 pages
...University, may be attributed to this dereliction of the side which he had embraced in the late reign 9. To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." The retort, by Sir William Browne,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...surveillance. On this occasion appeared the well-known epigram by an unknqwn hand : " King George, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." Retaliated by Sir W. Browne,... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 pages
...King to the University of Cambridge, on which the following epigram, by an Oxonian, was circulated : The king, observing with judicious eyes, The state...discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. This was thus answered by Sir William Browne : Sandwich was favoured by the Crown, the following epigram... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1897 - 1138 pages
...107) : — [On a Rtglment sent to Oxford, and a Present of Books to Cambridge, by George 1. (1716). The King, observing with judicious eyes The state...That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. Dr. Joseph Trapp (1679-1747).... | |
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The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. 
