A Letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor, on the Present Corrupt State of the University of CambridgeJames Dinnis, 1833 - 47 pages |
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Page 41 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm...
Page 41 - That he alloweth the Book of Articles of Religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord...
Page 8 - That the subjects of examination shall be one of the four Gospels or the Acts of the Apostles in the original Greek, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, one of the Greek and one of the Latin Classics.
Page 41 - That the Book of Common Prayer, and of ordering Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, containeth nothing in it contrary to the Word of God.
Page 22 - keep Pasche and Yule ; what have they for them ? They have no institution. As for our neighbour kirk of England, their service is an evil-said mass in English ; they want nothing of the mass but the liftings.
Page 8 - October or Michaelmas Term begins on the 10th of October, and ends on the 16th of December. Lent or January Term begins on the 13th of January, and ends on the Friday before Palm Sunday. Easter or Midsummer Term begins on the eleventh day (the Wednesday se'nnight) after Easterday, and ends on the Friday after Commencement-day.
Page 23 - ... of His teaching, — but in order that men may be moved thereby to glorify God. For the children of light are also meek and lowly. Even the sun, although he stands up on high, and drives his chariot across the heavens, rather averts observation from himself than attracts it. His joy is to glorify his Maker, to display the beauty and magnificence and harmony and order of all the works of God. So far however as it is possible for him, he withdraws himself from the eyes of mankind ; not indeed in...
Page 46 - It has a religion of rituals joined to a debased standard of morals, which legitimates impurity to preserve wealth, and oppresses with ceremonies those whom it deprives of consolation. Learning here is an accumulation of refined trifles ; science, the acquisition of profitless abortions, speedily smothered by emoluments, or rarely quickened into active life. Tithes and salaries are the extent of a Professor's wishes, and the whole extent of his achievements. Mental exertion is rewarded with sloth,...