 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 Seiten
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen mouths the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between the school... | |
 | 1837 - 272 Seiten
...accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Accordingly he exhausts the severity of his sarcasm, both upon the system which was there established,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 Seiten
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...the school and the scholar : but I cannot affect to to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all * The subject of the expulsion of this object by... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 Seiten
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unproGtable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar : but I... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1844 - 608 Seiten
...Autobiography ; — " To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother V V. That having faithfully prepared myself for the Office I now unworthily (but with much love) fulfil,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son. as I am willing to disclaim...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : and the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar ; but I cannot affect to believe... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 Seiten
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : and the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar ; but I cannot affect to believe... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a soni as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent...College ; they proved the fourteen months the most idle anfl unprofitable of my whole life : and the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar;... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 Seiten
...emphatically denies all obligation. ' ; I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College," he states, " they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.— From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, the fellows, or monks, both of Oxford and Cambridge,... | |
 | 1857 - 426 Seiten
..." To the University of Oxford," he says, " I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son *as I am willing to disclaim...the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable in my whole life.1 1 Memoirs, Vol. I. p. 34. But little as he did as a student, he already meditated... | |
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To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation, and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... 
