...the earlier testimony of Adam Smith, and the later experience of Sir William Jones. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors ' have for these many years given up even the pretence of teaching.' * There were, it is true, brilliant exceptions even then. Lowth, Blackstone,...

...neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.1 If the authority to which he is subject resides, not so much in the body corporate of which...

...received, the historian quotes another great authority, Dr. Adam Smith, -who states that in the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...political wisdom, who had himself resided at Oxford." Gibbon adds, " Of the State of discipline occasioned by the position of the Oxford professors, who...

...received, the historian quotes another great authority, Dr. Adam Smith, who states that in the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...moral and political wisdom, who had himself resided at Oxfcid." Gibbon adds, " Of the state of discipline occasioned by the position of the Oxford professors,...

...neighbour may neglect his duty provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. If the authority to which he is subject resides, not so much in the body corporate of which he is a...

...neighbor may neglect his duty, provided he is himself allowed to neglect his own." "In the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." And he adds, " In England, the public schools are much less corrupted than the universities. In the...

...forget his scathing sentences : — ' To the University of Oxford /acknowledge no obligation. . . . The greater part of the public professors have for...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . From the toil of reading or thinking or writing the fellows had absolved their conscience, and...

...alone. Smith's seven years would have been wellnigh wasted. " In the University of Oxford," he writes, " the greater part of the public professors have for...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." He returned homewards, nevertheless, with good store of Greek ; nor can it be doubted that he had been...

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...lessons ? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, ' That in the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...for these many years given up altogether even the pretense of teaching.' Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and...