"Regius" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... case of the work than of the life. The facts of the latter are but scanty. Matthew Arnold, as all the world knows, was the son—the eldest son—of the famous Dr (Thomas) Arnold, Head-master of Rugby, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he had earlier been a Fellow of Oriel. Dr Arnold survives in the general memory now chiefly by virtue of his head-mastership, which was really a remarkable one, whatever distinction it may owe to the loyalty of such a group of ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury
... gestabat fronte coronam Exigua nunc pulvereus requiescit in urna Quid solium—quid et alta juvant! terit omnia lethum, Verum laus fidei ac morum haud peritura manebit Tu quoque summe Deus regem quem regius hospes Infaustum excepit tecum ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 • Various
... long after this I also had a letter about the verses from Dr. Osler, then Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. In it he said, "I have read your little poem 'The Last Journey' with unusual interest." And again I knew why. You see, it does not matter very much what our rank or our station here, no matter whether a human being is a king or what his station in life ...
— How to Eat - A Cure for "Nerves" • Thomas Clark Hinkle
... the first who suggested the foundation of a College of Physicians. On the 15th of April, 1628, he wrote to Usher thus: "I suppose it hath been an error all this while to neglect the faculties of law and physic, and attend only to the ordering of one poor college of divines." In 1637 a Regius Professor of Physic was nominated. In 1654 Dr. John Stearne was appointed President of Trinity Hall, which was at this time set apart "for the sole and proper use of physicians;" and, in 1667, the physicians received their first charter from Charles II. The new corporation obtained ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
... essays, and what you say of the Athanasian Creed is deeply instructive. You will be glad to hear—what will become public in a few days—that of the 29 Royal Commissioners, 18 at least—including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of St. David's and Carlisle and the two Regius Professors of Divinity—have declared themselves against ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... Spain on ship-board. Near Hippo Regius (Bona) he was in danger of falling into the hands of P. Silius, on which he stabbed himself. Afranius and Faustus Sulla, the son of the dictator, were taken prisoners and murdered by the soldiers in ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
... abolish University Tests, of whose injustice Dilke had personal experience: [Footnote: Having taken his Master's degree at Cambridge in this year, Dilke was 'immediately nominated to the Senate as an examiner for the Law Tripos by the Regius Professor of Laws.' But on further inquiry it appeared that an examiner for honours in Law must be a member of the Senate, and that a member of the Senate must declare himself a member of the Church of England. Dilke, strongly objecting to this exclusiveness, had refused ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... be noted that the Chancellor merely admitted; he did not create. This was, and at Cambridge still is, the work of the faculty—the Proctors, as representative of the Arts, or the several "fathers" in the three superior faculties, for whom the Regius Professors are now substituted, in the junior University. At Oxford, since the promulgation of the Laudian statutes, the duty has been discharged by the Vice-Chancellor. In the faculty of Grammar—the Cinderella of the faculties, which ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell |
