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_Echoes from Old Cricket Fields_ cites the biography of Bishop Ken to show that he played cricket at Winchester College in 1650, one of his scores, cut on the chapel-cloister wall, being still extant; and the same writer reproduces as a frontispiece to his "opusculum" an old engraving bearing date 1743, in which the wicket appears as a skeleton hurdle about two feet wide by one foot high, while the bat is the Saxon

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

As it happens, during the second Parisian period, in the thick of the Latin-Averroist controversy, Thomas wrote an opusculum dedicated to the question: what did Aristotle actually teach?

Saint Thomas Aquinas McInerny, Ralph 2005

Quare autem opusculum hoc Plutarcho indignum atque suppositum visum

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

What Marjorie Lindon could see in such an opusculum surpassed my comprehension; especially when there was a man of my sort walking about, who adored the very ground she trod upon.

The Beetle Richard Marsh

It was addressed to Brutus, and was later than the dialogue which bears his name; cf. the preface, 'accipies hoc parvum opusculum, lucubratum his iam contractioribus noctibus, quoniam illud maiorum vigiliarum munus in tuo nomine apparuit.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Nupt. _, 4 'meminerint prurire opusculum Sulpiciae, frontem caperare'.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

I have myself been unable to obtain a sight of a copy, but a more fortunate friend has furnished me with a careful description of the opusculum, which I print in its place in the bibliography.

The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914

"De creatione Urbani VI opusculum"; Scipione Bozzuti (1582), killed in a sack of the city by some exiles in 1591.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

It was, however, one of St. Thomas's greatest achievements in philosophy that, especially in his opusculum "De unitate intellectus", he refuted the Arabian interpretation of Aristotle, showed that the active intellect is part of the individual soul, and thus removed the uncertainty which, for the Aristoteleans, hung around the notions of immateriality and immortality.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

He wrote an excellent opusculum known as "The Art of Dying Well" printed in 1487.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913