 | Roger Ingpen - 1917 - 902 Seiten
...in the account of his life at Magdalen, " stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth." Shelley, who readily met any friendly or sympathetic advances, was quickly repelled by the display... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 862 Seiten
...owners or the public. . . . Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.' Such was the atmosphere into which Gibbon was flung at the age of fifteen, ' with a stock of erudition... | |
 | 1924 - 428 Seiten
...conversation," says Gibbon, in a well-known passage, " stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes and private scandal : their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth." " Every man," says Adam Smith, in a passage hardly less well known, " consented that his neighbour... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 602 Seiten
...absolved their conscience '. ' Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth.' According to Chesterfield, the conditions at his own University of Cambridge were no better. But the... | |
 | John Joseph Mangan - 1927 - 446 Seiten
...owner or the public. . . . Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth. . . . This is so deliriously Erasmian that my attention has been called to other remarkable similarities... | |
 | 1914 - 592 Seiten
...to a long slumber.. .. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth." The name of Gladstone, who has been called England's foremost statesman, and the man whom Mr. Morley,... | |
 | Graham Midgley - 1996 - 200 Seiten
...owners or the public. ... Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth. 35 Sot, that lives and rots like a Frog in a Ditch.'' 6 Such men and such a way of life certainly appear... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 Seiten
...stagnated in a round of College business, Tory politics, personal stories and private scandal: dieir dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most li1ly loyalty f. the house of Hanover." A general election was now approachi': the great Oxfordshire... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 Seiten
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...of youth: and their constitutional toasts were not impressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover. (1753-58) '^#.-«-#:*. 371 * When I... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 Seiten
...business and Tory politicks; their deep and dull compotations left them no right to censure the warmer intemperance of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most sincere loyalty to the house of Hanover. I have heard that Latin declamations were formerly pronounced... | |
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I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and fondly expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes,... 
