Gregory of ToursClarendon Press, 1889 - Church and state |
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Page 282 - To happy Convents, bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber Abbots, purple as their wines...
Page 2 - The whole mode and manner of looking at things alters with every age," but this does not mean that the real events of a given age change; it means that our comprehension of these facts changes.
Page 440 - ... one definite meaning. Just as our bodily organs, when mentioned, recall their function in the body, as the word creation...
Page 324 - ... a particular person. He had exercised the dispensing power twice for persons who were not fellows of Magdalen, or of New ; twice for roman catholics. He had brought the fellows of Magdalen, members of a lay corporation, before the High Commission Court — a court for ecclesiastical causes — the commission of that court itself being illegal. Lastly, he had assumed to visit the college by a subaltern commission delegated by the High Commission, and had visited not to inquire, but to hear, to...
Page 335 - I may confidently affirm there is not any one in the College, however familiar with him, who has heard him speak a word either against or so much as concerning the Government; and although very frequently, both in public and in private, discourses have been purposely introduced to the disparagement of his master, the Earl of Shaftesbury, his party and designs, he could never be provoked to take any notice or discover in word or look the least concern; so that I believe there is not in the world such...
Page 361 - There can be no doubt that Wolf is perfectly right ; that all learning is scientific which is systematically laid out and followed up to its original sources, and that a genuine humanism is scientific.
Page 307 - Sat down to a pint of Madeira. Mr. H. surprised me over it. We finished two bottles of port together, and were very cheerful. Mem. To dine with Mr. H. at Peterhouse next Wednesday. One of the dishes a leg of pork and pease, by my desire.
Page 333 - THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD past in their Convocation July 21, 1683, against certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, their State and Government, and of all Humane Society.
Page 460 - ... just because it is above all price, is apt to be overlooked altogether. It argues some discernment, and a considerable degree of education, in a society in which such gifts are even appreciated as useful. And let it once establish itself, even under false pretenses, such is its marvelous ascendency, that, like refined manners, it will conquer and propagate and extend itself by sympathy, by imitation, above all by education. With no prescribed formula to follow, the new civic universities have...
Page 177 - He knew that professors wrought more even by example and influence than by teaching ; that it was theirs to pitch high or low the standard of learning in a country ; and that as it proved arduous or easy to come up to them, they awoke either a restless endeavour after an ever loftier attainment, or lulled into a self-satisfied conceit.