Oxford Studies (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...as bulwarks against the spread of heresy in the University. And so, though literature and scholars such as Erasmus and Ludovicus Vives spread "the new learning" in Oxford, and the teachers whom Wolsey had gathered from. Cambridge and elsewhere secretly countenanced the rising heresv. the university, as a associated with the Reformation by that burning of the three bishops that "lighted such a lire in England as shall not easily be put out." In the great national strife against Charles the First, Maynwaryng went forth from Oxford to preach "No resistance," and Laud to counsel "Thorough." There were some who believed that by violent measures the universities could be brought into unison with the national feeling, and amongst the earliest of these was Locke. "Sir, you have made a most glorious and happy Revolution, but, the good effects of it will soon be lost if no care be taken to regulate our universities,"1 was the appeal of one who, perhaps, still smarted with the disgrace of an exclusion, on mere political grounds, from Christ Church. But the Government wisely held aloof--how wisely the result of Sachcverell's "persecution" was destined to prove. During William's reign and the first years of his successor the university merely talked. Non-jurors were content to ignore the "usurpers," and in the midst of the rejoicings for Marlborough's victories, to exult over the exploits of the young Pretender, though lighting against those whom he claimed as his subjects and countrymen. "Amongst others that signalized themselves" in the battle near Mons, says ITearne, "must not be forgotten the young King of England, who fought under the character of the appeared in...