 | Charles Whibley - 1902 - 344 Seiten
..."To the University of Oxford," he wrote, " I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." But what could Oxford or any other university have taught the author of the ' Decline and Fall ' ?... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1903 - 234 Seiten
...AMERICAN UNIVERSITY " To the University of Oxford 7 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." — EDWARD GIBBON, Memoirs of My Life and Writings. " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1903 - 326 Seiten
...other respects, " 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," he continued, "will pronounce between the... | |
 | Charles Franklin Thwing - 1903 - 244 Seiten
...wish to come to college. The Oxford of Gibbon has forever passed away. You recall his description. " I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they...most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." The colleges of Oxford and Cambridge were founded in an age of darkness and of barbarous sciences, and... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 320 Seiten
...with bitter truth : " 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." But Gibbon had that which Oxford could neither give nor... | |
 | 1909 - 860 Seiten
...been ashamed. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and slie will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. . . . During my first weeks I constantly attended lessons in my tutor's room, but as they appeared... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 388 Seiten
...and from them apparently derived no benefit. "I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College," he wrote; "they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." s He became a Roman Catholic. It was quite characteristic of this bookish man that his conversion was... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 694 Seiten
...To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me fora son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen monthsat Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - 568 Seiten
...years later : " 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...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life " ; or of Chesterfield, who wrote : " Cambridge is shrunk into the lowest obscurity, and the existence... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1911 - 532 Seiten
...am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent 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."1 It is Edward Gibbon who, thrust forth from Oxford in his seventeenth year, because he chose... | |
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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... 
