| Royal Robbins - 1837 - 662 Seiten
...the fault. " The fellows," he says, " were easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform...room, till they retired weary and well satisfied, lo a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences."... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1838 - 728 Seiten
...the fault. " The fellows," he says, " were easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform...coffee-house, and the common room, till they retired weary and ^ell satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1839 - 754 Seiten
...the fault. " The fellows," he says, " were easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder; their days were filled by a series of uniform...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences." The student with such examples before him, might well be excused for indolence. Gibbon... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 Seiten
...blush, or a scornful frown, will be the only reply. The fellows of my time (not the gentlemen-commoners) were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts...and the common room, till they retired, weary and well-satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved... | |
| 1839 - 764 Seiten
...blush, or a scornful frown, will be the only reply. The fellows of my time (not the gentlemen-commoners) were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts...founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments,—the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1846 - 726 Seiten
...the faidt. " The fellows," he says, " were easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the haJl, th« coffee-house, and the common room, till they retired weary and well satisfied, to a long... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1848 - 728 Seiten
...the fault. " The fellows," he says, " were easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences." The student with such examples before him, might well be excused for indolence Gibbon... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1849 - 732 Seiten
...easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder ; their days were filled by a serios of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences." The student with such examples before him, might well he excused for indolence. Gibbon... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 Seiten
...Cambridge, a silent blush, or a scornful frown, will be the only reply. The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their con- ^ science ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 Seiten
...the "monks of Magdalen" were so graphically, and we doubt not so correctly, described by Gibbon. " Decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of...satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, thinking, or writing they had absolved their conscience. Their conversation stagnated in a round of... | |
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