 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1865 - 130 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...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life," — et seq. Eton was hardly better in his day than in ours. " A finished scholar may emerge from the... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 508 Seiten
...Mater. " 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...spent fourteen months at Magdalen College. They proved to be fourteen of the most idle and unprofitable months of my whole life." This singular experience... | |
 | Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association - 1877 - 244 Seiten
...son, and I am willing to disclaim her as a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College, and they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of -my whole life." And yet this man who spurns his alma mater wrote a work which has been characterized as the greatest... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 Seiten
...1752), into Oxford. 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 Seiten
...1152), into Oxford. 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 376 Seiten
...' To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation,' he wrote, ' and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother.' It is but a few pages that he gives to this mother whom he thus renounces, but his description is so... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 Seiten
...' To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation,' he wrote, ' and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother.' It is but a few pages that he gives to this mother whom he thus renounces, but his description is so... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 Seiten
...wrote afterwards — " To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation, and she will as readily renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life. The reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar."... | |
 | 1928 - 692 Seiten
...unavoidably of the famous sentence which Gibbon directed at Oxford: "She will as cheerfully renounce me as a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." In a final stroke, Milton concludes "the demonstration of what we should not do," and exhibits the... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 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 her for a mother." Removed from Oxford, he was placed at Lausanne, in Switzerland, under the care of a pious clergyman,... | |
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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... 
