Alma mater; or, Seven years at the University of Cambridge. By a Trinity-man [J.M.F. Wright].Black, Young, and Young, Tavistock-Street, 1827 |
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... chapel and dinner belfries , as well as to his rooms , I fell upon a certain dig- nified personage , powdered and perfumed to a de- gree , whom my Freshman sapience forthwith designated as the " Great Mon " I sought . I ac- cordingly ...
... chapel and dinner belfries , as well as to his rooms , I fell upon a certain dig- nified personage , powdered and perfumed to a de- gree , whom my Freshman sapience forthwith designated as the " Great Mon " I sought . I ac- cordingly ...
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... chapel we repair on Sundays and Saints days in surplices - but to church in the ordinary gowns . This distinction I could not get at by instinct , and accordingly , with two more , whose friends , like mine , had not been too lavish of ...
... chapel we repair on Sundays and Saints days in surplices - but to church in the ordinary gowns . This distinction I could not get at by instinct , and accordingly , with two more , whose friends , like mine , had not been too lavish of ...
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... Chapel . All impatient to see the statue of Newton , by Roubiliac , in praise of which I had heard much even out of the University , I dragged my friend into the interior , although in the short space of an hour he told me the chapel ...
... Chapel . All impatient to see the statue of Newton , by Roubiliac , in praise of which I had heard much even out of the University , I dragged my friend into the interior , although in the short space of an hour he told me the chapel ...
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... chapel of strikingly impressive interest . There were busts of great men in every direction , and a full - length ... chapel - bell having now finished its monitory ding - dong , we are suddenly surrounded by hosts of gownsmen , or ...
... chapel of strikingly impressive interest . There were busts of great men in every direction , and a full - length ... chapel - bell having now finished its monitory ding - dong , we are suddenly surrounded by hosts of gownsmen , or ...
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... chapel - clerk , presently arrayed me in one , which he had borrowed from the ante- chapel , the depository for those surplices , whose masters were too luxurious to bear them home , and too wealthy to grudge payment for Newby's care of ...
... chapel - clerk , presently arrayed me in one , which he had borrowed from the ante- chapel , the depository for those surplices , whose masters were too luxurious to bear them home , and too wealthy to grudge payment for Newby's care of ...
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Seite 125 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Seite 263 - ... line and the extremities of the base have the same ratio which the other sides of the triangle have to one...
Seite 301 - How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight...
Seite 261 - The sum of the angles of a spherical triangle is greater than two and less than six right angles. Hyp. ABC is a spherical triangle. To prove ZA + ZB + ZG> 180°, and ZA + ZB + ZC<5±0°. Proof. Construct the polar triangle A'B'C', and denote the number of degrees in B'C', C'A', and A'B', respectively, by a, b, and c.
Seite 147 - FC; then, because each of the angles BAC, BAG is a right angle*, the two straight lines AC, AG upon the opposite sides of AB, make with it at the point A the adjacent angles equal to two right angles; therefore CA is in the same straight line...
Seite 259 - From the same demonstration it likewise follows that the arc which a body, uniformly revolving in a circle by means of a given centripetal force, describes in any time is a mean proportional between the diameter of the circle and the space which the same body falling by the same given force would descend through in the same given time.
Seite 10 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Seite 97 - Questionist has kept his full number of terms ; if not, the deficiency is mentioned in the supplicat, and a certificate explaining the cause is delivered to the Caput by the Father. The Registrary shews to the Caput that every candidate has subscribed that he is Lona fide a Member of the Church of England.
Seite 11 - Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Seite 85 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, and the included...