Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century: Or the Studies of the University and Their Influence on the Character and Writings of the Most Distinguished Graduates...Macmillan, 1867 - 205 pages |
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... methods of instruction ; age of admission . - Characteristics of Undergraduate life ; testimony of Sir Simonds D'Ewes ; evidence of Cosin and Sterne . - State of religious parties throughout England from 1600 to 1625 ; Lord Keeper Wil ...
... methods of instruction ; age of admission . - Characteristics of Undergraduate life ; testimony of Sir Simonds D'Ewes ; evidence of Cosin and Sterne . - State of religious parties throughout England from 1600 to 1625 ; Lord Keeper Wil ...
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... method ; Cousin's estimate of the new philosophies ; Degerando's ; Descartes not disposed to neglect experiment ; Cousin's vindication ; real differences between the two methods . -Differences between the Aristotelians and Cartesians ...
... method ; Cousin's estimate of the new philosophies ; Degerando's ; Descartes not disposed to neglect experiment ; Cousin's vindication ; real differences between the two methods . -Differences between the Aristotelians and Cartesians ...
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... methods The routine of daily college life at that time differed in of instruction . some important respects from that which now exists . The bell for morning chapel rang at five o'clock , and to the service was sometimes added a short ...
... methods The routine of daily college life at that time differed in of instruction . some important respects from that which now exists . The bell for morning chapel rang at five o'clock , and to the service was sometimes added a short ...
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... method of attack which carried the war into the enemy's camp - by dissertations on the royal authority and the evils of Nonconformity . The ardour with which these recriminations were carried on attained at last a pitch which seemed to ...
... method of attack which carried the war into the enemy's camp - by dissertations on the royal authority and the evils of Nonconformity . The ardour with which these recriminations were carried on attained at last a pitch which seemed to ...
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... methods by which he sought their enforcement . To the intolerance of Wentworth in politics he presented the counterpart in matters ecclesiastical . Moderation , forbearance , charity , and mercy itself , were forgotten when once he ...
... methods by which he sought their enforcement . To the intolerance of Wentworth in politics he presented the counterpart in matters ecclesiastical . Moderation , forbearance , charity , and mercy itself , were forgotten when once he ...
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Page 199 - ... are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats; and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided and, where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person that makes use of them.
Page 136 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 199 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Page 79 - And, for the usual method of teaching Arts, I deem it to be an old error of Universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that, instead of beginning with Arts most easy (and these be such as are most obvious to the sense), they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and Metaphysics...
Page 199 - The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs in advancing the sciences will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity: but every one must not hope to be a Boyle or a Sydenham; and in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton...
Page 68 - the fringes of the north star ;' nothing of 'nature's becoming unnatural;' nothing of 'the down of angels' wings, or the beautiful locks of cherubims:' no starched similitudes introduced with a 'Thus have I seen a cloud rolling in its airy mansion,
Page 154 - Even so the soul, in this contracted state, Confined to these straight instruments of sense, More dull and narrowly doth operate ; At this hole hears, — the sight must ray from thence,— Here tastes, there smells;— but when she's gone from hence...
Page 49 - He was much for liberty of conscience; and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases).
Page 87 - I may remember Jerusalem, and call to mind the pleasures of the temple, the order of her services, the beauty of her buildings, the sweetness of her songs, the decency of her ministrations, the assiduity and economy of her priests and levites, the daily sacrifice, and that eternal fire of devotion that went not out by day nor by night. These were the pleasures of our peace, and there is a remaneut felicity in the very memory of those spiritual delights which we then enjoyed, as antepasts of heaven,...
Page 71 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.