| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 Seiten
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford /acknowledge no obligation; and she will ascheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...most idle and unprofitable of my whole life ; the reader-will pronounce between the school and the scholar; but I cannot affect to believe that Nature,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 Seiten
...ignorance of which a school-boy would have heen ashamed. To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." At Magdalen college he remained fourteen months, and he states them to have heen the most inactive... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 Seiten
...from superstition to infidelity! — " To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation; end she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent 14 months at Magdalen College; they prated the 14 months lite most idle and unprofitable of my whole... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 Seiten
...debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. 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 foi a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most... | |
| 1830 - 336 Seiten
...debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. /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 foi a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most... | |
| William Field - 1828 - 490 Seiten
...Treatise on Education, vol. ii. * Jebb's Works, vol. ii. p. 255. ' Mr. Gibbon had said of Oxford, " She will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Of Cambridge, Dr. Parr re-echoes, " Never shall I have the presumption to disclaim her as a mother... | |
| 1836 - 506 Seiten
...branch of knowledge, or any useful accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Accordingly he exhausts the severity of his sarcasm, both upon the system which was there established,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 Seiten
...debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce...months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen mouths the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between the school... | |
| 1837 - 272 Seiten
...branch of knowledge, or any useful accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Accordingly he exhausts the severity of his sarcasm, both upon the system which was there established,... | |
| 1838 - 482 Seiten
...branch of knowledge, or any useful accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Accordingly he exhausts the severity of his sarcasm, both upon the system which was there established,... | |
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