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Updated: June 17, 2025
The hall of the Inn, on which the founder's arms are painted, occupies one side of the square, the tall and ancient chambers are carried round other two sides, and over the central archway, which leads into Oldcastle-street, and so into the great London thoroughfare.
"Why, sir, he's a Colossus!" quoted that nimble youth; "'and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peer about " "And will find yourself a dishonourable grave," my father capped him. "What's your name, boy?" "Fiennes, sir; Nathaniel Fiennes." The lad saluted. My father lifted his hat in answer. "Founder's kin?" "I am here on that condition, sir."
Lawrence Bodley, the founder's brother, came with thirty-seven 'very fair and new-bought works in folio, and Lord Lumley with forty volumes reserved out of the library sold to the Prince. Lord Montacute contributed the works of the Fathers, 'in sixty-six costly great volumes, all bought of set purpose and fairly bound with his arms, Mr.
But just as castles in the air do not commonly become the property of their builders, so mansions in the skies almost as frequently have failed of direct inheritance. Rather strikingly has this proved the case with what are to-day the two most powerful religions of the world, Buddhism and Christianity. Neither is now the belief of its founder's people.
Now, it is the custom and the law that when the invading waters, either fluxing along the wall from below the road-bridge, or pouring sharply across the meadows from a cut called Owen's Ditch and I myself have seen it come both ways upon the very instant when the waxing element lips though it be but a single pebble of the founder's letters, it is in the license of any boy, soever small and undoctrined, to rush into the great school-rooms, where a score of masters sit heavily, and scream at the top of his voice, "P.B."
Carey's own head gardener became famous for his cabbages; and we find this sentence in the Society's Report just after the founder's death: "Who would have credited fifteen years ago that we could have exhibited vegetables in the Town Hall of Calcutta equal to the choicest in Covent Garden?"
His founder's merit was the merit of a gentleman raised by the arts of a court and the protection of a Wolsey to the eminence of a great and potent lord. His merit in that eminence was, by instigating a tyrant to injustice, to provoke a people to rebellion.
But on John Westlock's inventing a pickpocket for his gratification, and pointing out a highly respectable stranger as one of that fraternity, he was much delighted. His friend accompanied him to within a short distance of Camberwell and having put him beyond the possibility of mistaking the wealthy brass-and-copper founder's, left him to make his visit.
Perseus died a few years after, as a state prisoner, at Alba on the Fucine lake; his son in after years earned a living in the same Italian country town as a clerk. Thus perished the empire of Alexander the Great, which had subdued and Hellenized the east, 144 years after its founder's death. Defeat and Capture of Genthius
"I kept on taking in material until I had a good deal more than I could properly stow away in my mind, and it got to be too late for me to go back to the town, and they had to put me into the Founder's Room, because the house was a good deal crowded. Before I went to bed I examined all the things in the room.
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