 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 Seiten
...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 unproGtable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar : but I... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...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...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : and the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar ; but I cannot affect to believe... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 Seiten
...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...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : and the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar ; but I cannot affect to believe... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a soni 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 anfl unprofitable of my whole life : and the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar;... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 Seiten
...emphatically denies all obligation. ' ; I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College," he states, " they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.— From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, the fellows, or monks, both of Oxford and Cambridge,... | |
 | 1857 - 426 Seiten
...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...the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable in my whole life.1 1 Memoirs, Vol. I. p. 34. But little as he did as a student, he already meditated... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1865 - 128 Seiten
...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...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life," — et seq. Eton was hardly better in his day than in ours. " A finished scholar may emerge from the... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1874 - 380 Seiten
...for the industrious and worthy tutors at Warrington. He writes of his life at Magdalen College : " I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they...Nature had disqualified me for all literary pursuits." • And in confirmation of the singular want of supervision and instruction he received, the historian... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1874 - 374 Seiten
...for the industrious and worthy tutors at Warrington. He writes of his life at Magdalen College : " I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they...Nature had disqualified me for all literary pursuits." And in confirmation of the singular want of supervision and instruction he received, the historian... | |
 | Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association - 1877 - 244 Seiten
...son, and I am willing to disclaim her as a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College, and they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of -my whole life." And yet this man who spurns his alma mater wrote a work which has been characterized as the greatest... | |
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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. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... 
