The Collegian's Guide: Or, Recollections of College Days. Setting Forth the Advantages and Temptations of a University Education |
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... reason was there that I should not have known my poets and histories as well as the examiners themselves allowed that I knew my sciences ? Then , again , think of society . In Edwards ' rooms there used to meet together nearly all the ...
... reason was there that I should not have known my poets and histories as well as the examiners themselves allowed that I knew my sciences ? Then , again , think of society . In Edwards ' rooms there used to meet together nearly all the ...
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... reason , I say , - to come back to where we started , old Abram and his sign - post , if some one would set about what nearly all the parish might do if they would , ' many a man might be saved from the first step , and con- sequently ...
... reason , I say , - to come back to where we started , old Abram and his sign - post , if some one would set about what nearly all the parish might do if they would , ' many a man might be saved from the first step , and con- sequently ...
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... reason for the success of Basil Hall's writings ; he always wrote on a subject with which , from all the habits of his life , he was known to be familiar : whereas , in the race for literary distinction , few authors seem to consider ...
... reason for the success of Basil Hall's writings ; he always wrote on a subject with which , from all the habits of his life , he was known to be familiar : whereas , in the race for literary distinction , few authors seem to consider ...
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... is a sharper mistress even than science ; and since Cambridge has , for several reasons , many more men whose fortune depends on their wits than are 6 COLLEGE NOTIONS . 33 found at Oxford , this alone 32 THE COLLEGIAN'S GUIDE .
... is a sharper mistress even than science ; and since Cambridge has , for several reasons , many more men whose fortune depends on their wits than are 6 COLLEGE NOTIONS . 33 found at Oxford , this alone 32 THE COLLEGIAN'S GUIDE .
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... reason as well as policy in choosing their society . I should say , therefore , as regards society , give the preference to Oxford ; the tone of manners is higher , and the style better , on the whole . Our friends of Magdalene College ...
... reason as well as policy in choosing their society . I should say , therefore , as regards society , give the preference to Oxford ; the tone of manners is higher , and the style better , on the whole . Our friends of Magdalene College ...
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