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He then carried me to visit Dr. Bentham, Canon of Christ-Church, and Divinity Professor, with whose learned and lively conversation we were much pleased.
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I answered I had been sliding in Christ-Church meadow.
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Being asked whether All-Souls or Christ-Church library was the largest, he answered, ‘All-Souls library is the largest we have, except the Bodleian.’
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Preacher, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford and Edited by
Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And Bishop Charles Wordsworth writes his experience of Mr. Gladstone at this time, “made me feel no less sure than of my own existence that Gladstone, our then Christ-Church undergraduate, would one day rise to be Prime Minister of England.”
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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_Buckingham-shire_, and was Bred up at _Christ-Church_ in _Oxford_. in
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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_Barton Holyday_, an old Student of _Christ-Church_ in _Oxford_, who besides his Translation of _Juvenal_ with elaborate Notes, writ several other things in _English_ Verse, rather learned than elegant; and particularly a Comedy, called _The Marriage of the Arts_: Out of which, to shew you his fluent (but too Satyrical Style) take these Verses made by him to be spoken by _Pocta_, as an Execration against Women.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Or the rich nonconformist, risen perhaps from obscurity to a rank in society, indulging either his spleen or his pride -- either to send his eldest son as a gentleman-commoner to Christ-Church, to swallow the Thirty-nine
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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This Gentleman was bred up a Student in _Christ-Church_ in _Oxford_; where he addicted his Mind to the sweet Delights of Poetry, writing an
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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He was in his youth placed a Student of _Christ-Church_ in _Oxford_, a
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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