 | 1912 - 496 Seiten
...Gibbon's Memoirs. To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation ; and she WJH ^ cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother- IjPJ^t_f°u!te^nps at ^ they j>roved the fourteen months tlie_jaoiOdle_and_un2rpfitable pjjibxJjhde... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 490 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." B He became a Roman Catholic. It was quite characteristic of this bookish man that his conversion was... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 472 Seiten
...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." B He became a Roman Catholic. It was quite characteristic of this bookish man that his conversion was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 Seiten
...been ashamed. 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." At Magdalen College he remained fourteen months, and he states those to have been the most inactive... | |
 | David Baines-Griffiths - 1919 - 168 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." It was of one of his instructors at Oxford that Gibbon said, " He remembered that he had a salary to... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1921 - 442 Seiten
...sehr gering einschätzt ('To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no Obligation ... I spent fourtecn months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable "f niy whole life. Autobiography") und Grote, von Philosophen gar Hume nnd Spencer zeigen, wie häufig... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 862 Seiten
...doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed,' and here he spent fourteen months — ' the most idle and unprofitable...will pronounce between the school and the scholar.' From his childhood he had been fond of religious disputation, and his incursions into the bewildering... | |
 | 1926 - 470 Seiten
...illogically : ' 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 most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.' Gibbon's picture of his college dons, ' the monks of Magdalen ' as he calls them, is not pleasant :... | |
 | James Gordon McDonald - 1928 - 446 Seiten
...later life : " 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 at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen most idle and unprofitable months of my whole life." ' ' Gibbon,' Rhodes went on, ' had far more to... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 Seiten
...Gibbon's noble mind. 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. . . . The reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar. ' Sir,' asked one of Johnson, in... | |
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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... 
