The Rise and Early Constitution of Universities: With a Survey of Medi[micro]val Education

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D. Appleton, 1885 - 293 sider

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Side 286 - So if any man think philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied. And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
Side 31 - I spent my whole life in the same monastery," he says, "and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing.
Side 214 - It may here be mentioned that an honorary distinction was made between knights-bannerets and bachelors. The former were the richest and best accompanied. No man could properly be a banneret unless he possessed a certain estate and could bring a certain number of lances into the field.
Side 48 - Mercian prelates and priests, with one Welsh bishop, Asser. "Formerly," the King writes bitterly, "men came hither from foreign lands to seek for instruction, and now when we desire it we can only obtain it from abroad.
Side 285 - If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied ; and this I take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
Side 285 - I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions and none left free to the study of arts and sciences at large.
Side 41 - We exhort you, therefore, not only not to neglect the study of letters, but to apply yourselves thereto with perseverance and with that humility which is well pleasing to God; so that you may be able to penetrate with greater ease and certainty the mysteries of the Holy Scriptures. For as these contain images, tropes, and similar figures, it is impossible to doubt that the reader will arrive far more readily at the spiritual sense according as he is the better instructed in learning. Let there, therefore,...
Side 237 - His powers, though confirmed and amplified by royal charters, were ecclesiastical both in their nature and origin. The court over which he presided was governed by the principles of the canon as well as of the civil law ; and the power of excommunication and absolution, derived in the first instance from the Bishop of Ely...

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