. William Shakespere : a biography. mo-i ■-. Divinity Schools, in the sixteenth century-.] of the schools, as they were then conducted, were more calculated, as he hadheard, to call forth a talent for sophistry than a love of truth. Falsehoodmight rest upon logic, for the perfect soundness of the conclusion might hidethe rottenness of the premises. He entered the beautiful Divinity Schools;and there, too, he found that the understanding was more trained to dispute,than the whole intellectual being of man to reverence. He would pursue hisown course with a cheerful spirit; nothing doubting that,
. William Shakespere : a biography. mo-i ■-. Divinity Schools, in the sixteenth century-.] of the schools, as they were then conducted, were more calculated, as he hadheard, to call forth a talent for sophistry than a love of truth. Falsehoodmight rest upon logic, for the perfect soundness of the conclusion might hidethe rottenness of the premises. He entered the beautiful Divinity Schools;and there, too, he found that the understanding was more trained to dispute,than the whole intellectual being of man to reverence. He would pursue hisown course with a cheerful spirit; nothing doubting that, whilst he worked outhis individual happiness, he might still become an instrument of good to hisfellow-men. And yet did the young man reverence Oxford; because he re-verenced letters as opposed to illiteracy. He gave his testimony to the worthof Oxford at a distant day, when he held that the great glory of Wolsey was tohave founded Christchurch :— He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one :Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading:Loft
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