 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 pagina’s
...learning." The chaff, however, was soon hurled back as follows : — " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." Next to this group of buildings... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1907 - 636 pagina’s
...learning." To which the Cambridge wit, Sir Thomas Browne, retorted with still greater neatness and point: " The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument." The famous county election... | |
 | Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker - 1907 - 758 pagina’s
...Oxford sent his troop of horse : for Cambridge) por Tories own no argument but force. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent : For Whigs allow no force but argument. Modem politic.. When we come to modern politics, the parts are played on the political stage at Westminster.... | |
 | Samuel Fletcher Hulton - 1909 - 480 pagina’s
...How much that loyal body wanted learning. JOSEPH TRAPP, Wadham College, Oxford THE CAMBRIDGE REPLY The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. SIR WILLIAM BROWNE, Peterhouse,... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 438 pagina’s
...wrongly — been ascribed the lines on George the First's gift of a valuable library to Cambridge : The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. Trapp, who is buried here,... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 pagina’s
...learning. To which William Browne (the founder of the Browne medals) replied on behalf of Cambridge : — The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.] '[This catalogue was printed... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 456 pagina’s
...wrongly — been ascribed the lines on George the First's gift of a valuable library to Cambridge : The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument hut force ; With equal care to Camhridge hooks he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. Trapp,... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - 168 pagina’s
...Cambridge man's impromptu about Charles I. the cleverest he had heard : "The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse. For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument ; ' ' against Scotchmen and... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pagina’s
...: The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tom-s know no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. The following is credited to the poet Praed, who, while a member in Parliament and observing the Speaker... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - 568 pagina’s
...They were written by Sir William Browne, the founder of the University Prize for Odes and Epigrams : "The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force, With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument." Strange indeed was the freak... | |
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The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. 
