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" The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 160
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics ...

John Gascoigne - 2002 - 376 pages
...Oxford) during the 1715 uprising -a gift which prompted an Oxford wit to produce the oft-quoted epigram: The King observing with judicious eyes, The state...That learned body wanted loyalty: To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning, (in Toynbee, 1927: 106) The gift...
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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social ..., Volume 7, Part 2

Joseph Needham - 2004 - 344 pages
...1747i began it with the following verse: The King, ubserving with judicious cyes The State of hoth bis universities To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and...why? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge hooks, as very well discerning Huw much that loyal body wanted learning. Figure 4, Makers of Crosshows...
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Oxf. Hist. Soc

Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1901 - 454 pages
...this affront with an epigram worthy of a better origin — King George, observing with judicious eyea The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning flow much that loyal body wanted learning. The authorship of this is, we...
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