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...Oxford, followed the example of the great Flavius Josephus, and went to Cambridge. The records of his life at this place are scanty. Devotion to study seems to have injured his health, for the college book sets him down as "greaviuslie trubbled by ye cattarrhhe in ye Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young Philip to spend the afternoon with...
...very rich; as a specimen, we have "uproarous silence." It is hardly fair to be severe on a new issue, but it is better for a paper to be dull, and free from shameful typographical errors, than passable in reading matter, and full of such unpardonable mistakes as "wether," "conicious," and "ficle...