Downside: The History of St. Gregory's School from Its Commencement at Douay to the Present TimeK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1902 - 358 pages |
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Page 212 - Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the...
Page 212 - ... by the name of the University of London. AND WHEREAS, we did therein amongst other things will and ordain that all persons should be admitted as candidates for the respective Degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, or Doctor of Laws, to be conferred by the said University, on presenting to the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows thereof, a certificate of their having completed the requisite course of instruction from the College called University .College, or from...
Page 5 - ... diverse, complex, and irregular, and variously ramified, rich rather than symmetrical, with many origins and centres and new beginnings and the action of local influences, like some great natural growth ; with tokens, on the face of it, of its being a divine work, not the mere creation of human genius. Instead of progressing on plan and system and from the will of a superior, it has shot forth and run out as if spontaneously, and has shaped itself according to events, from an irrepressible fulness...
Page 48 - Five till half an Hour after Seven ; the other half Hour being allow'd for washing and breakfast Time ; at Eight we go to School, at Eleven to Prayers, at Noon to Dinner, at One to Study, at Two to School, at half an Hour after Four to Play, at Five to Study, at Six to Supper, and afterwards to Play if in the Summer Time, or in the Winter to our respective Seats in the Calefactory. None dares presume to go into the Town without the Prefect's Leave. We have a capacious Area or Yard, wherein is a Terras...
Page 212 - ... year," and all persons were admissible as candidates for the examinations on presenting certificates to the effect that they had followed courses of instruction (approved by the University) at University College, King's College, " or from such other instruction corporate or incorporated as now is, or hereafter shall be established for the purpose of Education, whether in the Metropolis or elsewhere within our United Kingdom " as were authorised by the Crown. The Charter was formally renewed by...
Page 332 - Possessed of the highest character by his learning, judgment, experience, integrity, Deprived of the highest stations only by his conscience and religion, Many he assisted in the law ; more he preserved from it. A friend to peace, guardian of property, and protector of the poor ; a servant of God, and lover of his country. He died July 5, 1737, aged seventy-six years.
Page 332 - To the memory of Nathaniel Pigott, Barrister at Law ; possessed of the highest character by his learning, judgment, experience, integrity ; deprived of the highest stations only by his conscience and religion. Many he assisted in the law ; more he kept from it. A friend to peace, a guardian to the poor, a lover of his country. He died July 5, 1737 ; aged 76 years.
Page 212 - ANNE by the Grace of GOD of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, &c. To our Trusty and well beloved, Edward Hyde, Esquire, commonly called Lord Cornbury, Greeting.
Page 175 - ... monks standing along the sides of the room in double-breasted cutaway coats and profuse neckcloths, boys in various attire on benches in the middle, and at the back the orchestra, the piano — a piano of 1814 remember — and two grave seigniors working away at the 'cellos. To us it is bizarre, but it has its pathos; it was a part of the beginnings.
Page 9 - They have many other benefactors in that country, and withall they read a divinity lecture in their cloisters and have many scholars which are beneficial to them, and many gentlemen's sons (which are their friends and benefactors in England...