The Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford, from A.D. 1647 to A.D. 1658, Volume 29

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Camden Society, 1881 - Great Britain - 593 pages
 

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Page cvi - yielded a harvest of extraordinary good and sound knowledge in all parts of learning; and many who were wickedly introduced applied themselves to the study of good learning and the practice of virtue...
Page 274 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as the same is now established, without a King or House of Lords...
Page iv - The COUNCIL of the NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY wish it to be distinctly understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications. For these the responsibility rests entirely with the Editors of the several works.
Page xl - he had a very graceful behaviour in the pulpit, an eloquent elocution, a winning and insinuating deportment, and could by the persuasion of his oratory, in conjunction with some other outward advantages, move and wind the affections of his admiring auditory almost as he pleased.
Page cix - Parliament. new government were drawn from the ranks of its Fellows ; and a large proportion of those members of the college who were cited very naturally gave in their submission. Merton was thus one of the few colleges which obtained self-government at an early date. Besides this, it was the only one of the six ancient foundations, preceding New College, which, by the ample income of its Warden1 and the magnitude of the original benefaction, had for a long period taken rank as a great college,...
Page lxxxi - ... Christ church, in the room of* Dr. Fell, who was ejected with no common degree of violence, Mrs. Fell and her family being literally dragged out of the deanery house by force. Dr. Reynolds being admitted into office in form, Wood says, " made a polite and accurate oration," in Latin, in which " he spoke very modestly of himself, and how difficult it was for a man that had sequestered himself from secular employments to be called to government, especially to sit at the stern in these rough and...
Page xix - ... him,self a stout champion, against Socinus and Arminius. Which being disrelished by some, who were then rising, and in authority at court, a faction thereupon grew up in the university between those called Puritans or Calvinists on the one side, and the Remonstrants, commonly called Arminians, on the other: Which with other matters of the like nature, being not only fomented in the university, but throughout the nation, all things thereupon .were brought into confusion.
Page xl - Wood, who seldom could drop any thing favorable of a pious non-conformist, thinks fit to own, that "he was a person well skilled in the tongues, rab"binical learning, and Jewish rites; that he had a "great command of his English pen, and was one of the "fairest and genteelest writers that appeared against the "church of England.
Page lvi - enjoy their ancient form of Government, subordinate to the immediate authority and power of Parliament...
Page 147 - ... you I shall acknowledge Dr. Staunton as President put in by the authoritie of both Houses of Parliament, but, under favor, I cannot acknowledge him as President accordinge to the Statutes of the Colledge, for that I am altogether ignorant of them. The Answere of Henry Price, Junior Cooke of CCC: Sirs, If it please you I shall acknowledge Dr.