The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1865 - Great Britain |
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... honoured with academic degrees ( " Salopienses gradibus Academicis dignati " ) prefixed to the Sabrina Corolla ( Shrewsbury Garland ) ; but he does not appear to have been a contributor to this repertory of scholarship , which consists ...
... honoured with academic degrees ( " Salopienses gradibus Academicis dignati " ) prefixed to the Sabrina Corolla ( Shrewsbury Garland ) ; but he does not appear to have been a contributor to this repertory of scholarship , which consists ...
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... honour of her it was named Queen's College . The foundation statutes of the college made the enjoyment of a Fellowship quite secure to any one of moderate attainments and industry , who should , after having duly kept his university ...
... honour of her it was named Queen's College . The foundation statutes of the college made the enjoyment of a Fellowship quite secure to any one of moderate attainments and industry , who should , after having duly kept his university ...
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... honours . A whole army of text - book makers appeared in Oxford , and an abounding quantity of works on logic were issued from the press . So far did the advo- cates of the advantages of the study of logic manage to advance in their ...
... honours . A whole army of text - book makers appeared in Oxford , and an abounding quantity of works on logic were issued from the press . So far did the advo- cates of the advantages of the study of logic manage to advance in their ...
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... honour of being , by permission , dedicated to Sir William Hamilton , who has expressed himself in unwontedly encomiastic terms in favour of the logician of Queen's College , Oxford , as the author of a work " of no ordinary merit ...
... honour of being , by permission , dedicated to Sir William Hamilton , who has expressed himself in unwontedly encomiastic terms in favour of the logician of Queen's College , Oxford , as the author of a work " of no ordinary merit ...
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... honour of being the earliest among British logicians who explicitly argued in favour of an extension of the theory of the syllogism beyond the scope given to it by Aristotle , and which had been accepted , in general , as the perfection ...
... honour of being the earliest among British logicians who explicitly argued in favour of an extension of the theory of the syllogism beyond the scope given to it by Aristotle , and which had been accepted , in general , as the perfection ...
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Page 47 - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
Page 153 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 232 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 152 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Page 230 - He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 152 - ... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Page 49 - Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate ? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
Page 103 - Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe, when there is a change from Era to Era.
Page 400 - ... no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away...
Page 152 - ... under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...