A History of the University of Oxford, Volume 1

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Methuen & Company, Limited, 1924 - Oxford (England) - 22 pages
 

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Page 185 - I shall give you summaries of each title before I proceed to the text; secondly, I shall give you as clear and explicit a statement as I can of the purport of each law (included in the title); thirdly, I shall read the text with a view to correcting it ; fourthly, I shall briefly repeat the contents of the Law; fifthly, I shall solve apparent contradictions, adding any general principles of Law (to be extracted from the passage), commonly called "Brocardica...
Page 422 - He was a man of genuine piety. He was not born with it. He was naturally hot, impetuous, and resentful, indolent, fond of pleasure, and of women's society, disposed to make a joke of everything. He told me that he had fought against his faults with study, fasting, and prayer, and thus his whole life was, in fact, unpolluted with the world's defilements.
Page 185 - Law (included in the chapter) ; thirdly, I shall read, the text with a view to correcting it ; fourthly, I shall briefly repeat the contents of the Law ; fifthly, I shall solve apparent contradictions, adding any general principles of Law...
Page 114 - B. those of their predecessors and heirs, and of all my own parents and benefactors, to the honour and glory of the Most High. But now that peace is restored in England, and our old troubles are allayed, I approve with firm purpose of mind, establish, and confirm the former grant ; and I limit, grant, and assign the local habitation and home of the school to be at Oxford, where there is a prosperous University of students, on my own proper freehold which abuts upon St. John's Church...
Page 12 - Mox de generibus et speciebus illud quidem sive subsistant sive in solis nudis intellectibus posita sint, sive subsistentia corporalia sint an incorporalia, et utrum separata a sensibilibus an in sensibilibus posita et circa haec consistentia, dicere recusabo. Altissimum enim negotium est hujusmodi, et majoris egens inquisitionis.
Page 216 - Intelligendo per animam intellectivam formam immaterialem, incorruptibilem, quae tota est in toto et tota in qualibet parte, non potest sciri evidenter per rationem vel e.xperientiam...
Page 214 - Witnesse on hym that any parfit clerk is, That in scole is greet altercacioun In this mateere, and greet disputisoun, And hath been of an hundred thousand men ; But I ne kan nat...
Page 432 - Again, we have been disputing for ages whether the grace by which God loves us and the grace by which we love God are one and the same grace. We dispute how the Father differs from the Son, and both from the Holy Ghost, whether it be a difference of fact or a difference of relation, and how three can be one when neither of the three is the other.
Page 216 - ... substantiae proprium sit in nobis, nee quod talis anima sit forma corporis. Quidquid de hoc senserit Aristoteles, non curo, quia ubique dubitative videtur loqui. Sed ista tria solum fide tenemus).
Page 191 - The whole knowledge possessed by the world in the department of physiology from the third to the seventeenth century, nearly all the biological conceptions till the thirteenth, and most of the anatomy and much of the botany until the sixteenth century, all the ideas of the physical structure of living things throughout the Middle Ages, were contained in a small number of these works of Galen. The biological works of Aristotle and Theophrastus lingered precariously in a few rare manuscripts in the...

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