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'Twere too Ibng to speak of all ; What ; we harmony do call ,
In a body should be there . Well he should his cloaths so wear ; Yet no tailor help to make him ; Brest , you still for man should take him .
Valiant he should be as fire , Showing danger more than ire , Bounteous as the clouds to earth , And as honest a ^ his birth . All his actions should be such
As to nothing do top riiuch . Sfor o ' er praise , nor yeteondemn , Nor out ^ vtdue , nor contemn ;
N ^ ; ^ ^ K ^ And from baseness to be free , As he durst love truth and me .
Such a man , with every part , I could give my very heart ; But of one if short he came I could rest me where I am .
An ^ H ON ? A Wood . —Oxford was very fortunate in its antiquary , Anthony a Wood , an Oxford man , if ever there was one : for be was born in Oxford , "in a house opposite to the forefront of Merton College /' one of the oldest of the foundations . He waa educated in that college ; he passed his life there ; he died there , and was buried " in St . John ' s Church , adjoining Merton College- " He was all hi * life so earnest a labourer that he was little known , even in the university in which he was to be the great historian . He died in 1695 , aged sixty-four . His sayings and doings are preserved hy Hearne , his brother antiquary . When one told him he had found two or three mistakes in his book , " Have you so ? " said" Mr 7 Wood ; " I thank you ; but I have found three or four wcore to them ; ' He was passionate , and in his passion , would " swear very much . " He pretended to be deaf , though
he could hear very well . He always carried his stick under his arm , —" a thing much taken notice of by those who knew him . " He was deeply prejudiced against all Puritans , and he shows it in the most straightforward way . We can hardly suppose he ever had time to reconsider an opinion about current men and things . Accordingly , when we find him saying of a university officer that he acted according to his usual perfidy , which he frequently used in his office , for lie was born and bred a Presbyterian , " we read with an allowance which wo hold no lo » s thandue to the worthy whose whole head was in the collection of past facts . Mis
tvvo great works , the " Historia et Antiquitatefs" and the u Athentc "— havt long caused Oxford to be considered as one of the best written corporations in tlu world . — A themeum .
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'Twere too Ibng to speak of all ; What ; we harmony do call ,
In a body should be there . Well he should his cloaths so wear ; Yet no tailor help to make him ; Brest , you still for man should take him .
Valiant he should be as fire , Showing danger more than ire , Bounteous as the clouds to earth , And as honest a ^ his birth . All his actions should be such
As to nothing do top riiuch . Sfor o ' er praise , nor yeteondemn , Nor out ^ vtdue , nor contemn ;
N ^ ; ^ ^ K ^ And from baseness to be free , As he durst love truth and me .
Such a man , with every part , I could give my very heart ; But of one if short he came I could rest me where I am .
An ^ H ON ? A Wood . —Oxford was very fortunate in its antiquary , Anthony a Wood , an Oxford man , if ever there was one : for be was born in Oxford , "in a house opposite to the forefront of Merton College /' one of the oldest of the foundations . He waa educated in that college ; he passed his life there ; he died there , and was buried " in St . John ' s Church , adjoining Merton College- " He was all hi * life so earnest a labourer that he was little known , even in the university in which he was to be the great historian . He died in 1695 , aged sixty-four . His sayings and doings are preserved hy Hearne , his brother antiquary . When one told him he had found two or three mistakes in his book , " Have you so ? " said" Mr 7 Wood ; " I thank you ; but I have found three or four wcore to them ; ' He was passionate , and in his passion , would " swear very much . " He pretended to be deaf , though
he could hear very well . He always carried his stick under his arm , —" a thing much taken notice of by those who knew him . " He was deeply prejudiced against all Puritans , and he shows it in the most straightforward way . We can hardly suppose he ever had time to reconsider an opinion about current men and things . Accordingly , when we find him saying of a university officer that he acted according to his usual perfidy , which he frequently used in his office , for lie was born and bred a Presbyterian , " we read with an allowance which wo hold no lo » s thandue to the worthy whose whole head was in the collection of past facts . Mis
tvvo great works , the " Historia et Antiquitatefs" and the u Athentc "— havt long caused Oxford to be considered as one of the best written corporations in tlu world . — A themeum .