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Rich churchmen, patrons of letters, launched promising students on to the Continent to give them a complete education; as Richard Fox, Founder of Corpus Christi, sent Edward Wotton to Padua, "to improve his learning and chiefly to learn Greek," or Thomas Langton, Bishop of Winchester, supported Richard Pace at the same university.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to your notice Batty Langton, Esquire, a child of nature not perhaps of the best period still using his naked fists and for a woman primitive cause of quarrel. And didn't he enjoy it, by George!" He laughed again softly. But, could he have foreseen, he had been willing rather to cut the hand off for its day's work. Ruth was happy.
See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 16. See ante, p. 86, and post, under Nov. 29, 1777. Johnson gives both epocha and epoch in his Dictionary. Langton. See ante, p. 48, and post, Sept. 22, 1777. This very just remark I hope will be constantly held in remembrance by parents, who are in general too apt to indulge their own fond feelings for their children at the expence of their friends.
The mere fact that Stephen Langton and Peter des Roches were their first patrons in England shows how they appealed alike to the best and worst clerical types of the time. Chron. Maj., v., 194. Men and women of all ranks, while still living in the world and fulfilling their ordinary occupations, associated themselves to the mendicant brotherhoods.
This journey was in fact the chief interruption to the even tenour of his life. He made a tour to Wales with the Thrales in 1774; and spent a month with them in Paris in 1775. For the rest of the period he lived chiefly in London or at Streatham, making occasional trips to Lichfield and Oxford, or paying visits to Taylor, Langton, and one or two other friends.
Within a few days of the saint's death, Friar Gilbert with thirteen companions made his way to England. In the company of Peter des Roches the Dominican pioneers went to Canterbury, where Archbishop Langton was then residing.
Do you mean Ellen Langton, daughter of the old merchant Langton, whom you have some cause to remember?" "I do remember him; but he is where he will speedily be forgotten," answered the traveller. "And this girl, I know your eye has been upon her, Hugh, describe her to me." "Describe her!" exclaimed Hugh with much animation.
Langton, for his being of a very ancient family; for I have heard him say, with pleasure, 'Langton, Sir, has a grant of free warren from Henry the Second; and Cardinal Stephen Langton, in King John's reign, was of this family. Mr. Langton afterwards went to pursue his studies at Trinity College, Oxford, where he formed an acquaintance with his fellow student, Mr.
There as he lay, if he had any doubt of peril, his weariness soon made it all one to him, for presently he was sleeping as soundly as any man in Langton on Holm. Day was yet young when he awoke: he leapt to his feet, and went down to the stream and drank of its waters, and washed the night off him in a pool thereof, and then set forth on his way again.
He failed even to get Boniface on his side in a scandalous attack which he instigated on Bishop Langton. His constant efforts to enlarge his jurisdiction raised up enemies all over his diocese and province, and the mob of his cathedral city broke open his palace, while he was in residence there.
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