A Versatile Professor: Reminiscences of the Rev. Edward Nares, D. D., Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, 1813-1841George Cecil White R. B. Johnson, 1903 - 308 ページ |
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... felt grateful for the efforts which his father made to introduce him into good society , while at the same time he encouraged his love of books . helped him to avoid that pedantic contempt of personal appearance and manners which was ...
... felt grateful for the efforts which his father made to introduce him into good society , while at the same time he encouraged his love of books . helped him to avoid that pedantic contempt of personal appearance and manners which was ...
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... felt only with those in a superior position , but , like that described by Sir Walter Scott in his diary , even before his servants . This was amusingly exemplified by Mr. Nares on one occasion towards the end of his life , when ...
... felt only with those in a superior position , but , like that described by Sir Walter Scott in his diary , even before his servants . This was amusingly exemplified by Mr. Nares on one occasion towards the end of his life , when ...
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... felt obliged to laugh too , but I cer- tainly did think at times that I should have to pay for my grandeur , and that the Prince might get his royal head broken . At length , however , we reached our destination , and as soon as dinner ...
... felt obliged to laugh too , but I cer- tainly did think at times that I should have to pay for my grandeur , and that the Prince might get his royal head broken . At length , however , we reached our destination , and as soon as dinner ...
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... felt perfectly dumb to all the purposes of wit and humour as long as I staid in the house , and would willingly have taken his gout upon me to have been excus'd opening my mouth at all . " AN APPEAL 51 The rest of this chapter I will 50 ...
... felt perfectly dumb to all the purposes of wit and humour as long as I staid in the house , and would willingly have taken his gout upon me to have been excus'd opening my mouth at all . " AN APPEAL 51 The rest of this chapter I will 50 ...
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... felt a strong preference towards our native country . " During our short stay on the Continent we visited several monasteries . The vicaire of the Capuchin Convent at Calais return'd our visit , breakfasted , and din'd with us . " He ...
... felt a strong preference towards our native country . " During our short stay on the Continent we visited several monasteries . The vicaire of the Capuchin Convent at Calais return'd our visit , breakfasted , and din'd with us . " He ...
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142 ページ - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
141 ページ - twenty acres of land, called the Bread and Cheese Land, lying in five pieces, were given by persons unknown, the yearly rents to be distributed among the poor of this parish. This is yearly done on Easter Sunday, in the afternoon, in 600 cakes, each of which have the figures of two women impressed...
142 ページ - And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, "' Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his cross of red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride. The moonbeam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain.
141 ページ - ... to which latter is added one pound and a half of cheese, are given to the parishioners only, at the same time. There is a vulgar tradition in these parts that the figures on the cakes represent the donors of this gift, being two women, twins, who...
142 ページ - ... half of cheese, are given to the parishioners only, at the same time. There is a vulgar tradition in these parts, that the figures on the cakes represent the donors of this gift, being two women, twins, who were joined together in their bodies, and lived together so till they were between twenty and thirty years of age. But this seems without foundation.
251 ページ - DISCOURSES on the THREE CREEDS, and on the HOMAGE offered to our SAVIOUR on certain and particular Occasions, during his Ministry, as expressed in the Evangelical Writings by the Greek Term HPOZKTNEn.
147 ページ - God, that to believe otherwise, that is, to believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian system of faith at once little and ridiculous, and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air. The two beliefs cannot be held together in the same mind; and he who thinks that he believes both, has thought but little of either.
257 ページ - I'm eighty years old, A girl of eighteen is in love with old Gould. To which his friend replied— A girl of eighteen may love Gould, it is true, But believe me, dear sir, it is gold without U.
142 ページ - There is a vulgar tradition in these parts, that the figures on the cakes represent the donors of this gift, being two women, twins, who were joined together in their bodies, and lived together so till they were between twenty and thirty years of age. But this seems without foundation. The truth seems to be, that it was the gift of two maidens of the name of Preston ; and that the print of the women on the cakes has taken place only within these fifty years, and were made to represent two poor widows,...
299 ページ - January, 1749, was pleased to advance him to the high and important Office of Master of the Rolls ; the Revenue of which, soon after his promotion, received from Parliament, unsought by him, a very considerable and equally Honourable Augmentation. By a faithful Discharge of the...