"Cambridge University" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the heat last week may be gathered from the following order issued by the Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps:— ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 • Various
... was an active leader of the Boer Army in the field in the Boer war. He is a graduate of Cambridge University in England, served as state attorney for the South African Republic, and was known as a member of the bar ...
— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan
... agreeing to make the first, Watt immediately devoted himself to a study of the laws of harmony, making science supplement his lack of the musical ear. As usual, the study was exhaustive. Of course he found and took for guide the highest authority, a profound, but obscure book by Professor Smith of Cambridge University, and, mark this, he first made a model of the forthcoming organ. It is safe to say that there was not then a man in Britain who knew more of the science of music and was more thoroughly prepared to excel in the art of making organs than ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie
... English clergyman, was born in 1819 and entered Cambridge University in 1838. Ten years later he published the first of his stories, and in 1855, Westward Ho! Next to this book probably ranks his Hypatia, which he published in 1855, and which tells a thrilling tale of the struggles of Christianity with the Greek faith in the fifth century. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester
... are due to my publishers, Messrs. Methuen and Co., for allowing me to incorporate in Chapter VI the greater part of a chapter in my book 'The Paycockes of Coggeshall', and to the Cambridge University Press for similarly allowing me to repeat in Chapter III a few sentences from my study of 'Medieval English Nunneries'. I have also to thank my friends Miss M.G. Jones and Miss H.M.R. Murray of Girton College, Cambridge, for various suggestions and criticisms, and my ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power
... correspond with that of the printed copy. [Note: This manuscript, invaluable to all students of Milton, has lately been facsimiled under the superintendence of Dr. Aldis Wright, and published at the Cambridge University press]. This is certainly true, as the reader may see for himself by comparing the passage from the manuscript given in the appendix with the corresponding place in the text. Milton's own spelling revels ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... M. de Cambis, Mme. De Cambridge University; Walpole at Camelford, Lord Campbell, Mr. (first Baron Cawdor) Camden, Earl Carlisle, third Earl of Carlisle, fourth Earl of Carlisle, fifth Earl of, Frederick Howard; in America, letters from Hare and Selwyn; Selwyn's letters to, commence; sketch of life;' Order of ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue |
