A Hand-book for Visitors to Oxford

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James Parker, 1875 - 223 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 61 - Vif1tor of all the Halls, except St. Edmund Hall, which is dependant on Queen's College, and the Principal appointed by that Society. ST. ALBAN HALL. I. ST. ALBAN HALL, which is in St. John's Parifh, adjoins to Merton College on the eaft.
Pàgina 241 - JOHN'S COLLEGE. THIS College was founded in 1555, by Sir Thomas White, Knt., Alderman of London. The original foundation consisted of a President, fifty Fellows and Scholars, one Chaplain, an Organist, six Singing Men, eight Choristers, and two Sextons. Under the Statutes made by the University of Oxford Commissioners, the foundation will hereafter consist of — 1.
Pàgina 41 - What! my lord, shall we build houses, and provide livelihoods for a company of monks, whose end and fall we ourselves may live to see ? No, no, it is more meet a great deal, that We should have care to provide for the increase of learning, and for such as who by their learning shall do good to the church and commonwealth.
Pàgina 166 - Beginning from the south-west corner, the first two figures we meet with are the Lion and the Pelican. The former of these is the emblem of Courage and Vigilance, the latter of Parental Tenderness and Affection.
Pàgina 117 - Press, and was so called from the fact of its having derived its foundation in part from the proceeds of the sale of copies of Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, the copyright of which was in the reign of Queen Anne presented to the University by his son.
Pàgina 265 - Thomas Tesdale, Esq., and Richard Wightwick, BD, who together bequeathed and gave a sufficient sum of money to found a new college; the fellows and scholars principally to be elected from the free-school at Abingdon.
Pàgina 194 - ... Dr. Buckler, SubWarden, and other Fellows. The Ante-Chapel is 70 feet long, and 30 broad. The inner Chapel is of the same dimensions. The HALL. — This fine room is decorated with a large picture, given by Thomas Palmer, Esq. some time Member for the University, and formerly Fellow of this College, representing " The finding of the Law, and King Josiah rending his robe," by Sir James Thornhill ; and with portraits of the Founders, Archbishop Chichele and King Henry VI.
Pàgina 166 - This is the emblem of a good tutor or fellow of a college, who is set to watch over the youth of the society, and by whose prudence they are to be led through the dangers of their first entrance into the world.

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