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" Filius, to mount the rostrum, and divert a large crowd of spectators, who flocked to hear him from all parts, with a merry oration in the fescennine manner, interspersed with secret history, raillery, and sarcasm, as the occasions of the times supplied... "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 110
1812
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Terræ-filius: Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford ..., Volume 1

Nicholas Amhurst - 1726 - 224 pages
...melancholy ditty, adapted to paftoral mufick. Innumerable crowd of fpeftators, who flock'd thither to hear him from all parts, with a merry oration in the Fefcennine manner, interfpers'd with fecret hiftory, raillery, and fircafm, as theoccafions of the...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...> about six months after its commencement, from all parts, with a merry oration in the I"escenni»e manner, interspersed with secret history, raillery,...the occasions of the times supplied him with matter. Something like this jovial solemnity were the famous Saturna/ian feasts among the Romans." And in his...
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Book Catalogue: German & English

1844 - 1320 pages
...called Terrae-Filiua to mount the rostrum, and divert a large crowd from all parts with a merry oration, interspersed with secret history, raillery and sarcasm...the occasions of the times supplied him with matter. Amhurst wasexpelled from St. John's College, Oxford, probably for his whip principles, hine Hits lachrymal;...
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Notes and Queries

1912 - 834 pages
...rostrum at Oxford, at certain seasons, and divert an innumerable crowd of spectators who flocked thither to hear him from all parts, with a merry oration in the Fesccnnine manner, interspersed with secret history, raillery and sarcasni as the occasions of the...
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The rook's garden, essays and sketches, by Cuthbert Bede

Edward Bradley - 1865 - 314 pages
...rostrum at Oxford at certain seasons and divert an innumerable crowd of spectators, who flock'd thither to hear him from all parts, with a merry oration in...raillery, and sarcasm ; as the occasions of the times supply'd him with matter. . . . Something like this jovial solemnity were the famous saturnalian feasts...
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Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century

1874 - 776 pages
...Rostrum at Oxford at certain seasons, and divert an innumerable crowd of spectators, who flocked thither to hear him from all parts, with a merry oration in the Fesccnninc manner interspcrs'd with secret history, raillery. and sarcasm, as the occasion of the times...
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A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great ..., Volume 3

Samuel Halkett, John Laing - 1885 - 450 pages
...Terroe Filius, to mount the Rostrum, and divert a large crowd from all parts, with a merry oration, interspersed with secret history, raillery and sarcasm...the occasions of the times supplied him with matter. Amhurst was expelled from St. John's College, Oxford, probably for his whig principles, hinc ilia lathrynttt...
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A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great ..., Volume 3

Samuel Halkett, John Laing - 1885 - 446 pages
...Terrs Filius, to mount the Rostrum, and divert a large crowd from all parts, with a merry oration, interspersed with secret history, raillery and sarcasm...the occasions of the times supplied him with matter. Amhurst was expelled from St. John's College, Oxford, probably for his whig principles, hinc illtc...
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The Book of Trinity College, Dublin, 1591-1891

Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1892 - 346 pages
...mount the Rostrum at Oxford at certain seasons [during the Acts of the Term], and divert an innumerable crowd of spectators, who flocked to hear him from all parts, with a merry oration, interspersed with secret history, raillery, and sarcasm. . . Several indignities having been offered...
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Notes and Queries

1912 - 572 pages
...from all parte, with a merry oration in the f'rucfnnine manner, interspersed with seer, t ln-|..ry, raillery and sarcasm as the occasions of the times supplied him with matter.' " Now the Cambridge 'Tripos' was, probably, in old times delivered like the ' Terrœ Filius ' from...
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