Oxonia Purgata: An Attempt to Correct the Errors and Abuses of the University of Oxford, in a Series of Addresses; First to the Members of Convocation, and Afterwards to the Chancellor, Relating to the New Discipline of that UniversityNathaniel Bliss, 1811 |
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Page 24 - Inductionem censemus earn esse demonstrandi formam, quae sensum tuetur, et naturam premit, et operibus imminet, ac fere immiscetur. Itaque ordo quoque demonstrandi plane invertitur. Adhuc enim res ita geri consuevit, ut a sensu et particularibus primo loco ad maxime generalia advoletur, tanquam ad polos fixos, circa quos disputationes vertantur ; ab illis czetera, per media, deriventur ; via certe compendiaria, sed praecipiti, et ad naturam impervia, ad disputationes proclivi et accommodata.
Page 6 - I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. "Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
Page 11 - De antiquitate autem, opinio quam homines de ipsa fovent negligens omnino est, et vix verbo ipsi congrua. Mundi enim senium et grandaevitas pro antiquitate vere habenda sunt; quae temporibus nostris tribui debent, non juniori aetati mundi, qualis apud antiquos fuit.
Page 11 - Mundi enim senium et grandaevitas pro antiquitate vere babenda sunt ; quae temporibus nostris tribui debent, non juniori aetati mundi, qualis apud antiquos rait. Illa enim aetas, respectu nostri, antiqua et major; respectu mundi ipsius, nova et minor fuit. Atque revera quemadmodum majorem rerum humanarum notitiam, et maturius judicium, ab homine sene expectamus, quam a juvene, propter experientiam, et rerum, quas vidit, et audivit, et cogitavit, varietatem et copiam ; eodem modo et a...
Page 28 - ... on any life or lives, or to take any annual rent or other annual advantage or profit by occasion of any lease or ferm of any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, the property or estate of any such spiritual person or persons Belonging to him or them either in his or their own right, or in the right of any other person or persons, or in right or by reason of his or their having or holding any spiritual dignity or benefice, or so taken, purchased, received, or held as aforesaid, as the property...
Page 5 - SCIENTIARUM et PHYsicEs ELEMENTA attinet, Examinatoribus liberum esto quemlibet Candidatum vel in hisce universis, vel in aliqua parte horum, (prout ipsis satius visum fuerit,) examinare ; modo ut Dialecticae ratio habeatur, et ut tres isti Scriptores Graeci et Romani semper adhibeantur.
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| Title | Oxonia Purgata: An Attempt to Correct the Errors and Abuses of the University of Oxford, in a Series of Addresses; First to the Members of Convocation, and Afterwards to the Chancellor, Relating to the New Discipline of that University |
| Author | Edward Tatham |
| Publisher | Nathaniel Bliss, 1811 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
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