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Society at Clarendon Press, 1909
 

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Página 103 - Stellata"), and Mr. Plowden, that great lawyer, put his hand thereto first, whereupon Mr. Lovelace easily followed. But the cause being moved in Court Mr. Lovelace, being a young man, was called to answer the error of his antient, Mr. Plowden, who very discreetly made his excuse at the bar that Mr. Plowden's hand was first unto it and that he supposed he might in any thing follow St. Augustine. And although it were then overruled, yet Mr. Serjeant Richardson, thirty years after, fell upon the same...
Página 29 - Play till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat, Then step to my Neighbour's, till Dinner to chat. Dinner over, to Tom's or to James's I go, The News of the Town so impatient to know: While Law, Locke and Newton, and all the rum Race That talk of their Modes, their Ellipses, and Space, The Seat of the Soul, and new Systems on high, In Holes, as abstruse as their Mysteries lye.
Página 38 - where two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt be in the midst of them, and bless them.
Página 26 - And the good old man, though he was very learned, yet knowing that God leads us not to heaven by many nor by hard questions, like an honest Angler, made that good, plain, unperplexed Catechism which is printed with our good old Service-Book.
Página 19 - Bridge-foot in Oxford, and hearing the Barge-men scold and storm and swear at one another, at which he would set his Hands to his Sides, and laugh most profusely: Yet in his College and Chamber so mute and mopish that he was suspected to be Felo de se.
Página 17 - Considerations on the Public Exercises for the First and Second Degrees in the University of Oxford.
Página 49 - ... who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Página 29 - I rise about nine, get to Breakfast by ten Blow a Tune on my Flute, or perhaps make a Pen ; Read a Play 'till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat ; Then step to my Neigbours, 'till Dinner to chat.
Página 10 - ... the man upon me too, to get a crown towards clothing him ; but, as he is able to work for his living, I don't think him a proper object for charity ; nor can I at this time afford to do anything for him, because I am apprehensive that I must be forced to contribute to Salmon's relief, who will want near twenty shillings to subpoena proper witnesses to Warwick at his trial; and I cannot but think it a much greater act of charity to relieve a suffering innocent than to relieve an idle beggar. '...
Página 17 - As neither the officer, nor any one else, usually enters the room (for it is reckoned very ungenteel), the examiners and the candidates often converse on the last drinking-bout, or on horses, or read the newspaper, or a novel, or divert themselves as well as they can in any manner, till the clock strikes eleven, when all parties descend, and the testimonium is signed by the masters.