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At the age of seventeen he was entered as a commoner at Queen's College, Oxford, and the reputation that he brought with him to the University may be inferred from the remark of the writer of "Athenae Oxonienses," that Halley came to Oxford "with skill in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and such a knowledge of geometry as to make a complete dial."
No, my father I could unite with none but an honest party men who love the state and forget themselves; and such are not now found in Athens. The few that exist dare not form a barrier against the powerful current that would inevitably drive them to destruction." "You speak truth, Philaemon," rejoined Anaxagoras: "Pallas Athenae seems to have deserted her chosen people.
Letter to sir Kenelm Digby, prefixed to the Religio Medici, fol. edit. Digby's Letter to Browne, prefixed to the Religio Medici, fol. edit. Life of sir Thomas Browne. Merryweather's letter, inserted in the Life of sir Thomas Browne. Life of sir Thomas Browne. Wood's Athenae Oxonienses. Wood. Whitefoot. Howell's Letters. Religio Medici. Life of sir Thomas Browne.
In his Athenae Oxonienses he had written the lives of all his enemies. Wood, "being a mere scholar," could, of course, expect nothing but disrespect in a place like Oxford. His younger contemporary, Humphrey Prideaux, was, in the Oxford manner, a man of the world.
* Or Prick. Anthony d Wood, Athenae Oxoniensis, vol. i., p. 691.
Burnet speaks of him as 'Willis, the great physician. History of his Own Time, ed. 1818, i. 254. See Wood's Athenae, iii. 1048. See ante, ii. 409 and iii. 242, where he said: 'Had I learnt to fiddle, I should have done nothing else. Ante, p. 277. Ante, p. 181. Mr. Langton thinks this must have been the hasty expression of a splenetick moment, as he has heard Dr. Johnson speak of Mr.
Butler's Remains, p. 232, edit. 1754. 'He preaches, indeed, both in season and out of season; for he rails at Popery, when the land is almost lost in Presbytery; and would cry Fire! Fire! in Noah's flood. There is no reason to believe that this piece was not written by Butler, but by Sir John Birkenhead; for Wood, in his Athenae Oxonienses. Vol.
"He was a person of great gravity, ability, and integrity; and, as the Caspian Sea is observed neither to ebb nor flow, so his mind did not rise or fall, but continued the same constancy in all conditions." II. pp. 451, 452; Wood's Athenae, II. 441, 443; Clar. Hist.
There are many English translations of Tacitus: the first, by Sir Henry Savile and "one Greenway"; the former, says Gordon, "has performed like a schoolmaster, the latter like a school-boy." Anthony a Wood writes in another strain, in the "Athenae Oxonienis": "A rare Translation it is, and the Work of a very Great Master indeed, both in our Tongue and that Story.
His parents were of moderate condition; but by their industry acquired some territorial possessions, which descended to their son. The first seven years of his life was spent at Cremona, whence he went to Mediolanum, now Milan, at that time the seat of the liberal arts, denominated, as we learn from Pliny the younger, Novae Athenae.
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