The Book of Rarities in the University of Cambridge: Illustrated by Original Letters and Notes, Biographical, Literary, and Antiquarian |
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Page 141 - Fynysshid the last day of Marche, the yer of our Lord God a thousand fonre hondrcd Ixxiiij.
Page 237 - Imprynted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of | the sonne/ by Wynkyn de Worde | ( On the reverse is the mark of Wynkyn de Worde with WC occurring thrice in if) Sm.
Page 253 - The Gospels of the fower Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons...
Page 208 - THOUGH it be appointed, that all things shall be read and sung in the Church in the English tongue, to the end that the congregation may be thereby edified ; yet it is not meant, but that when men say Morning and Evening Prayer privately, they may say the same in any language that they themselves do understand.
Page 263 - A PRETIE NEW ENTERLUDE | Both pithie and pleasaunt of the story of | Kyng Daryus, being taken out of the third | and fourth chapter of the thyrd booke of Esdras. | The Names of the Players. The prolocutor.
Page 209 - EUANGELISTES, translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons...
Page 216 - I have heard one of the greatest geniuses this age has produced,' who had been trained up. in all the polite studies of antiquity, assure me,* upon his being obliged to search into several rolls and records, that notwithstanding such an employment was at first very dry and irksome to him, he at last took an incredible pleas' ure in it, and preferred it even to the reading of Virgil or Cicero.
Page 36 - Demosthenes), was the most silent man, the merest statue of a man that I have ever seen. I once dined in company with him, and all he said during the whole time was no more than Richard. How a man should say only Richard, it is not easy to imagine.
Page 248 - Yorke, beeying long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme, with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the princes, bothe of the one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of Kyng Henry the fowerth, the first...
Page 21 - To th' other he sent books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. THE ANSWER. The King to Oxford sent his .troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.