 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1857 - 1174 pages
...nothing to induce us to pass this Bill." The hon. Gentleman reminds me of the old couplet of — " The King to Oxford sent a troop of Horse, For Tories own no argument but force." "What matters it," argues the hon. Member, " that the Jews have reason on their side, when you have... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1857 - 802 pages
...put forth by Sir William Browne on behalf of the sister University : " The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse ; For Tories own no argument but force. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent ; For Whigs allow no force but argument." With all his prejudices and... | |
 | George Roberson, John Richard Green - 1859 - 146 pages
...founder of the prize for odes and epigrams in that university, and himself a wit of no mean order—- The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. The books here alluded to were the 30,000 volumes of Bishop Moore's magnificent library which the Crown... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 902 pages
...body wanted learning; was felicitously replied to by Sir William Browne: The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. p The earliest Library -keeper... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1860 - 300 pages
...W. Browne, of Peter-house, wrote the following epigram on the occasion : The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. « Dr. Trapp, of Wadham, wittily... | |
 | Royal College of Physicians of London - 1861 - 474 pages
...Oxford at the very time that the library was removed to Cambridge. Browne commemorated it thus : — The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. He took the degree of doctor of medicine at Cambridge in 1721, and shortly afterwards, according to... | |
 | William Munk - 1861 - 458 pages
...Oxford at the very time that the library was removed to Cambridge. Browne commemorated it thus : — The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. Iie took the degree of doctor of medicine at Cambridge in 1721, and shortly afterwards, according to... | |
 | Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, Theodore C. Wilks, Charles Lockhart - 1861 - 434 pages
...wauled learniug." To which answered Sir William Browne, for Cambridge:— " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." (2) Mr. Brydges did not lite... | |
 | 1863 - 830 pages
...loyal body wanted learning." To this Sir William Browne, the physician, made a reply extempore : " The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force: With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." Of Sir John Hill, physician... | |
 | 1863 - 648 pages
...of Sir William Browne, the physician, was answered by him thus : — " ' The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. ' " Johnson did Sir William... | |
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The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. 
