Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century

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Deighton, Bell, and Company, 1874 - 727 Seiten

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Vain attempt to procure a syndicate
357
Prof Conington on the restriction of celibacy
360
Described also by Amherst 375
375
circulated by authority each sheet of verses was called a Tripos or Tripos Paper
379
And in Trinity College commonroom
391
The Toasts Progress 398
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A student ignorant of fashionable slang
404
Bedmakers not to usurp the offices of poor scholars
411
Interior in the illustrations to the Oxford Sausage
412
Aggression of town magistrates punished
419
1575 Welsh and Saxons
427
Morning draughts at Oxford
433
His scale of penalties 442
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Pictures of Gordon 451
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Inventory of a B A of OXFORD 455
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Kings coll free from the quarrels concerning dress
461
The accusation of long perukes met
468
Prof Prymes reminiscences of dress wigs c 476
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A penalty imposed for disregard of those statutes
485
Dr Whewell on the importance of academical dress 491
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The OXFORD commoners leadingstrings
525
to additional illustrations or comments contained in the pages of Appendices
538
1793 The Literary Club Coleridges 589
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The College Fellows Circulating Library
599
Complyers Dodwell Nelson 610
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Gray complains of the apathy of his fellowStudents with
615
Pelham on the Vicechancellors side 629
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Wilcox succeeds Keene as Vicechancellor 75 76
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Sir J Harringtons statement 188
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Prohibited at King James visit to CAMBRIDGE 160
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1535 Performances of the Trinity lecturers
667
1620
683
Inventory of the apparel of a scholar of St Johns CAM
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1632
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B E C
705
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Seite 194 - ... our house was in a manner invested, and entrance demanded by twelve o'clock at noon ; and before one it was not wide enough for many who came too late for places.
Seite 5 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Seite 5 - The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
Seite 158 - Why did I sell my college life," He cries, " for benefice and wife ? Return, ye days, when endless pleasure I found in reading, or in leisure ! When calm around the common room I puffd my daily pipe's perfume ! Rode for a stomach, and inspected, At annual bottlings, corks selected : And din'd untax'd, untroubled, under The portrait of our pious founder ! When...
Seite 467 - ... cloaks, without guards, welts, long buttons, or cuts. And no ecclesiastical person shall wear any coif or wrought high-cap, but only plain night-caps of black silk, satin, or velvet. In all which particulars concerning the apparel here prescribed, our meaning is not to attribute any holiness or special worthiness to the said garments, but for decency, gravity, and order, as is before specified.
Seite 164 - The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him absolute in the most Necessary and Commendable Qualities concerning Mind or Body, that may be required in a Person of Honor.
Seite 139 - ... writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. I, who hear a thousand coffee-house debates every day, am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen. There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics, where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttlefish, that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes...
Seite 374 - ... decay of punning, and may chance to touch upon the rise and fall of tuckers ; but I will roar aloud and spare not, to the terror of, at present, a very flourishing society of people, called...
Seite 361 - Although Malthus was a parson of the English State Church, he had taken the monastic vow of celibacy — one of the conditions of holding a Fellowship in Protestant Cambridge University: 'Socios collegiorum maritos esse non permittimus, sed statim postquam quis uxorem duxerit socius collegii desinat esse.
Seite 126 - College, coffee was not of such common use as afterwards, and coffee-houses but young.* At that time, and long after, there was but one, kept by one Kirk. The trade of news also was scarce set up ; for they had only the public Gazette, till Kirk got a written news-letter circulated by one Muddiman.

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