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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... .......................................................................... 18 OXFORD ....................................................................... ..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ...er that chiefly people our parks. Red deer were also found at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire, when it was visited by Dr. Johnson, as may be seen in “Boswell... ...apter), this noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchest... ...University College ................................................ 207 2. Balliol " ..................................................... ... ...pect to the knowledge of its plans, by redoubled cringings to their brutal masters, in order to shield it from suspicion,—but that it would prob- ably... ...prepara- tion they never could have been ripe whilst overlooked by Turkish masters. That haughty race now retreated from all parts of the Morea, withi...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... ...onshire, of which his great-grandfather and great-uncle had both been head-masters. There was much to make Ottery homelike to Coley, for his grandpare... ...rent of tenderness, most endearing to all concerned with the boys, whether masters, relations, friends, or servants. 14 Life of John Coleridge Pattes... ...vity. Their tumultuous loyalty and audacity appear in Coley’s letter:— ‘In college, stretching from Hexter’s to Mother Spier’s was a magnificent repre... ... Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, then Arch- deacon of Surrey, and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish c... ...eside, so that it was thought better that he should wait and go up for the Balliol scholarship in the autumn. In the October of 1844 he describes to h... ...r two later, in November 1844, came the compe- 31 Yo n g e tition for the Balliol scholarship, but Coley was not success- ful. On the Saturday he wri...

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...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary...

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... Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ly be rendering him in the eyes of his subjects another despised and hated Balliol. Deeming himself a divinely-appointed redresser of wrongs, Henry wa... ... and Malcolm, looking into his face, saw it full of tenderness. ‘Books and masters you shall have,’ continued James, ‘such as for church or state, cat... ...l choose,’ said James. ‘Either he shall study at the learned university at Oxford or at Paris, or he shall ride with me, and see how cities and battle... ...t were well to suppress the alien priories, and give their wealth to found colleges like that founded by Bishop Wykeham.’ For in truths the spirit of ... ... bred up among William of Wykeham’s original seventy at Winchester and New College, and now much trusted and favoured by the King, whom he everywhere ... ...colm, meantime, was balancing between the now approaching decision between Oxford and France. He certainly felt something of his old horror of warlike... ...e called for the two Yorkshiremen, and thus addressed them: ‘Well done, my masters! Thanks for show- ing Scots and Frenchmen what stuff Englishmen are...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the College of Pre- ceptors, and my father had assisted him in his school until... ... have dealt with them disrespect- fully. But public schools and university colleges sprang into 54 The New Machiavelli existence correlated, the scho... ...f my life. I had to conceal my wider outlook to a certain extent— from the masters even more than from the boys. Indeed I only let myself go freely wi... ...re our great days together. Afterwards we were torn apart; Britten went to Oxford, and our circumstances never afterwards threw us continuously togeth... ...ber. It—it impresses parents and keeps up our classieal tradition. And the masters can help. We don’t want to antagonise them. Of course—we’ve got to ... ...feet on the fender, “it’s just a nervous sniggering—because he’s afraid… . Oxford’s no better.” “What’s he afraid of?” said I. “God knows!” exploded H... ...me eager, clever little man he was when I first met him. He had come up to Balliol bristling with extraor- dinary degrees and prizes capturned in prov...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who h...

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... 61 CHAPTER XX 63 THE LOVE OF BOOKS THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY E.... ...OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY E. C. THOMAS is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is fu... ...near Bury St. Edmunds, was the son of Sir Richard Aungerville. He studied at Oxford; and was subsequently chosen to be tutor to Prince Edward of Wind... ...er of the Gild of St. Mary—one of the two gilds which founded Corpus Christi College. In 1334 he became High Chancellor of England, and T rea surer i... ...rly not selfish. The treatise contains his rules for the library of the new College at Oxford—Durham College (where T rinity College now stands)—whi... ...fish. The treatise contains his rules for the library of the new College at Oxford—Durham College (where T rinity College now stands)—which he prac ... ...spersed, some going into Duke Humphrey’s (the University) library, others to Balliol Col lege, and the remainder passing into the hands of Dr. Georg... ...he poverty of human ignorance to books without feel ing any shame! They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, witho... ... been infected with pestiferous venom. In sooth, we who should be treated as masters in the sciences, and bear rule over the mechanics who should be s...

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...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...as the founder of thirteen almshouses, and had endowed two scholarships at Oxford, the object of ambition of the Stoneborough boys, every eighteen mon... ...m ex- erting himself, and leaving most of his parish work to the two under masters of the school, Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Harrison, who did all they had ti... ...brilliant talent that Norman had displayed, to a degree that surprised his masters, almost as much as the examiners. The copy of verses Dr. May brough... ...r prayers together.” Mr. Hazlewood was recollected by Mr. Wilmot as an old college friend, and a correspondence with him fully con- firmed the favoura... ...ts that, in their imagination, the world could furnish. Going to try for a Balliol scholar- ship! It was a sad falling off, even if they understood wh... ...dy, heart and soul, one of her most loyal and loving sons, speaking of his college and of the whole university as one who had a right of property in t... ...y happy in the re- newed friendship; and had been claimed as a cousin by a Balliol man, a certain Norman Ogilvie, a name well known among the Mays. “A...

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...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...! Not that she pitied herself. Everybody had been kind to her—governesses, masters, girls, and all. She had been happy and successful, and had made nu... ...might be, since he had come out triumphantly from the examination for Eton College, and had been informed that morning that there were vacancies enoug... ...d the bright hopes and elaborate theories with which he had undertaken the mastership only nine months ago. He was then fresh from the university, and... ...ide to show to his old friend, and they were staying at the Folly, while a college friend of Mr. Ogilvie’s, a London curate, had come to see him in th... ...the few bones of con- tention in the family. For Allen was walking through Oxford in a quiet, amiable way, not troubling himself more about study than... ...on’t suppose it will make much difference yet,” said John, “except that at Oxford I should go in more for physi- cal science.” “You don’t want to give... ...ed with gratitude for his younger brother’s patronage. “I met Bulstrode at Balliol last night, and he asked if I knew of any one (a perfect gentleman ...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... broad and shining waters 18 Thackeray of the Cam, and under the walls of Balliol and Sidney Sussex. The Duke of Bellamont (then a dashing young siza... ... which we have mentioned. The dinner over, the young men rushed from their colleges, flushed, full-fed, and eager for battle. If the Gown was angry, t... ...’s hospital to the Blenheim turnpike, all Cam- bridge was in an uproar—the college gates closed—the shops barricaded—the shop-boys away in support of ... ...bisniss; he atcheaved it with the assistnce of the ugliest and most lernid masters, and the most hidjus and egsimplary governices which money could pr... ...OF JANUARY, 1838, I was the master of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and ... ...it me!—and I wonder how some fellows can have the insolence to allow their masters to shave them!” With this, Mr. Hock flung himself down to be curled...