Oxford: A Guide to Its History and BuildingsLongmans, Green and Company, 1923 - 119 էջ |
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Oxford: A Guide to Its History and Buildings George Robert Stirling Taylor Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1923 |
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Էջ 48 - That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Էջ 48 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder: their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Էջ 41 - I tell yon, sirs, that I judge no land in England better bestowed than that which is given to our Universities; for by their maintenance our realm shall be well governed when we b£ dead and rotten.
Էջ 19 - Then was England very much divided. Some held with the king, and some with the empress; for when the king was in prison, the earls and the rich men supposed that he never more would come out: and they settled with the empress, and brought her into Oxford, and gave her the borough.
Էջ 34 - ... older religious orders, nor the more practical and popular selfdevotion of the Dominicans and Franciscans. He forbade them ever' to take vows, he enjoined them to maintain their corporate independence against all foreign encroachments, he ordained that all should apply themselves to studying the liberal arts and philosophy, before entering upon a course of theology, and he provided special chaplains to relieve them of ritual and ceremonial duties. He contemplated and even encouraged their going...
Էջ 34 - The employment of his scholars was to be study — not the claustralis religio of the older religious orders, nor the more practical and popular self-devotion of the Dominicans and Franciscans. He forbade them ever to take vows ; he enjoined them to maintain their corporate independence against all foreign encroachments; he ordained that all should apply themselves to studying the liberal arts and philosophy before entering upon a course of theology ; and he provided special chaplains to relieve...
Էջ 12 - And then, after Midwinter, they took an upward course, out | through Chiltern, and so to Oxford, and burned that town, and then took their way, on both sides of the Thames, towards their ships V The several chroniclers who follow the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle do not vary the story materially.
Էջ 14 - Oxeneford paid for toll and gable and all other customs yearly — to the king twenty pounds, and six measures of honey, and to Earl Algar ten pounds, besides his mill within the ([city].
Էջ 13 - Witan" at Oxford; and Earl Leofric and almost all the thanes 1 A.-S. C'arou. C, su', anno . north of the Thames, and the " lithsmen " of London, chose Harold to the government of all England, him and his brother Harthacnut, who was in Denmark. And Earl Godwine and all the chief men of Wessex...
Էջ 45 - They were erected by their founders at the first only for poor men's sons, whose parents were not able to bring them up unto learning; but now they have the least benefit of them, by reason the rich do so encroach upon them.