Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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12857How was it, we wonder, that these initials were never removed?
43764Do you know the reason of the discord? 43764 Savez por qui est la descorde?
43764How can the flame of ideal sympathy with the great personalities of their country''s history fail to be kindled or kept alive in such a place?
43764How did the town of Cambridge itself come to be a place of any importance in the early days?
43764If the vesture of Christ be exhibited, where will we not go to kiss it?
43764What can be more acute, more profound, or more refined than the judgment of Linacre?
43764What has nature ever fashioned gentler, sweeter, or pleasanter than the disposition of Thomas More?
43764Who does not admire in Grocyn the perfection of training?
43764Who was the architect of this masterpiece?
43764Why do we not rather venerate the living and breathing picture of him in these books?
43764Yet who shall despise the day of small things?
43764Zoar, is it not a little one?
43764degree in 1635?
43764what is five thousand pounds to buy the site, build and endow a College therewith?...
42247Any passengers?
42247Do n''t you_ see_ I''m blind?
42247Does the_ thief_ or_ hangman_ take precedence at executions?
42247How do you, then?
42247How long have you been in Cambridge?
42247How many sacraments are there, sir?
42247How so?
42247How was he to dispose of his_ corpus_?
42247Sir, I expect to be obliged; am I not your master?
42247The same as you had on Wednesday?
42247Una quod es semper, quod semper es optima, Princeps, Quam bene conveniunt hæc duo verba tibi? 42247 Very well, I thank you, sir,"said the wag,"how do you do?"
42247What is it?
42247What, sir,said he, addressing the Doctor,"do you mean to apply that word_ discipline_ to the_ officers_ of the army?
42247Who?
42247Who?
42247Yes, sir( said Gurnay;) and am I not your fellow?
42247_ Apropos_, my lord,exclaimed Harvest, during the meal,"whence do you derive your nick- name of_ Jemmy Twitcher_?"
42247_ Decline!_said the astonished orator;"what do you mean?
42247_ Quips, Quirks, and Anecdotes?_"Aye, that''s_ the_ Book!
42247''That''s a large sum for a philosopher,''observed Dr. Pope;''what would you do with so much?''
42247''Why,''said I,''who is so mad as to wish to be governed by force?
42247( said he) What cryes the University?
42247***** TELL US WHAT YOU CAN''T DO?
42247***** WAS OXFORD OR CAMBRIDGE FIRST FOUNDED?
42247After he had wiped his mouth, and begun to compose himself, Bozzy entreated to know what he was giggling about whilst he eat the mutton?
42247An envious scribe one day there saw him, and mocked his calamity by asking,"If it was not easy to write like a madman?"
42247And then, like Philip, I demand the cause?
42247And two Oxonians were of late PLUCKED AT THEIR DIVINITY EXAMINATION, Because one being asked,"Who was the_ Mediator_, between God and man?"
42247At another time, when asked what he would drink?
42247At the name of Dante, Mr. Gray suddenly turned round to him and said,"Right: but have you read Dante, sir?"
42247But what have we here?"
42247But what then?
42247Dean?"
42247Did he_ chalk double_?
42247Didst ever taste champagne?
42247Dr. Parr once asked the professor,"what he thought of the origin of evil?"
42247During one of these morning or evening calls, Dr. B. observing the embryo physician had but few books in his chambers, asked him"Where was his study?"
42247He one day asked his learned college contemporary, Dr. John Taylor, editor of Demosthenes,"why he talked of selling his horse?"
42247Heard ye the din of dinner bray?
42247Is it so?
42247Is the mealy''prentice fled?
42247Meadly, his biographer, relates, that when asked why he had exchanged his living of Dalston for Stanwix?
42247P.?"
42247PAGE Was Oxford or Cambridge first Founded?
42247Some of Dr. Parr''s hearers, struck with a remarkable passage in his sermon, asked him"Whether he had read it from his book?"
42247The Bishop was not a man to''_ bate_ an iota of his due, and stopped them and asked,"If they knew he was the Vice- Chancellor?"
42247The Vice- Chancellor imagining that he actually_ weighed his ale_, said,"They tell me you sell ale by the pound; is that true?"
42247The composer hummed again,--again Prior hissed the singer, who, enraged at the circumstance, demanded"Why he was subject to such indignity?"
42247The next time he met his friend, he addressed him with,"Well, have you succeeded in finding the_ value of nothing_?"
42247The other being questioned as to"why our Saviour sat on the right hand of God?"
42247This the Vice- Chancellor observed, and asked what he meant by it?
42247Unde mihi distichon?
42247Upon this, one of the party exclaimed,"You have told us a great deal of what you can do,_ tell us something you ca n''t do_?"
42247Walking, soon after he was liberated, in the streets of London, during a heavy shower of_ rain_, he was plied with,"A coach, your reverence?"
42247What cryes the boyes?
42247What cryes the town?
42247What would you more?
42247Where was it in the time of Tarquinius Priscus?
42247Where was it?"
42247Which is denied by Dr. Kippis, in the"Biographia Britannica,"and"when Doctors disagree, who shall decide?"
42247Whilst under examination by the Privy Council, the celebrated Duke of Newcastle, then minister, asked him,"If he were not a bishop?"
42247Why are not_ you_ a doctor?
42247Why should we smother a good thing with_ mystifying dashes_, instead of plain English high- sounding names, when the subject is of"honourable men?"
42247Will not the richness and plenty of the diet he wallowed in very well account for this, without supposing any great number of years of imprisonment?
42247Your simile, I own, is new, But how dost make it out?
42247e._ Sir, what is your pleasure?)
42247exclaimed Mr. H.;"Where to?"
42247exclaimed the other,"how so, Doctor?"
42247he exclaimed, in his significant way,"Shall these dry bones live?"
42247heard ye not yon footsteps dread, That shook the hall with thund''ring tread?
42247how am I to know_ the_ Inn?"
42247is it possible?
42247my man, can you tell me the way to----?"
42247or who is such a fool as to expect to be governed by virtue?
42247price ten guineas?
42247said he, as he sucked something he held in both hands;"_ Fish_, as well as flesh, my good woman?"
42247said the ghost,"what art doing below?"
42247think''st thou you essenced cloud, Raised by thy puff, can vie with_ Nature''s_ hue?
42247what every thing?
42247what we?