...lord Sheffield's edition changed to " a mnster of moral aud political wisdom." t " In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given tip altogether even the pretence of teaching." On this pimsage, Professor Thorold Rogers, in his edition...

...sons? 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 3° rest my belief on the positive...

...round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal " ; in the other, " the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Yet so deeply rooted were this state and these abuses in " law and prejudice, that even the omnipotence...

...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...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching ",l Incredible as'the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence...

...welcomed nor taught. Long afterwards, in his Wealth of Nations, Smith complained that " in the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching " ; and he added, in more general terms, that in the Universities of England " the youth neither are...

...information. Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations (first published in 1776) says: "In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching :i" ; and Mr JE Thorold Rogers, in a footnote to this passage, adds : " The condition of Oxford during...

...information. Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations (first published in 1776) says: "In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching3" ; and Mr JE Thorold Rogers, in a footnote to this passage, adds : " The condition of Oxford...

...on record by Gibbon and Adam Smith. " In the University of Oxford," observes the Scotch economist, " the greater part of the public professors have for...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Gibbon, who was entered at Magdalen in 1752, is yet more copious and emphatic. " The Fellows, or monks...

...teachers free of any sense of responsibility in their work. "In the University of Oxford," he declared, "the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of teaching." But if the authority to which, as the source of income, the teacher is made...

...of the overindulgence and indifference of the teachers of his time, he says 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. ..." " "Whatever forces a certain number of students to any college or university,...