 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - Liczba stron: 360
...for a mother. I fpent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable 'of my whole life: the reader will pronounce between the fchool and the fcholar; but I cannot affect to believe that Nature had difqualrfied me for all literary... | |
 | 1797 - Liczba stron: 846
...for a mother. 1 fpent fourteen months 4.1 Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable of my whole life :• the reader will pronounce between the fchool and the ichoiar ; but I cannot affeét to believe that Nature had difqualified me for all literary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - Liczba stron: 786
...for a mother. I fpent fourt/en months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between tlie fchool and the fcholar ; but I cannot affedl: to believe that Nature had difqualified me for all... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - Liczba stron: 670
...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...scholar ; but I cannot affect to believe that nature has disqualified me for all literary pursuits. 'c Perhaps, in a separate annotation, I may coolly examine... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - Liczba stron: 726
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...whole life : the reader will pronounce between the schdol and the scholar : but I cannot affect to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all literary... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - Liczba stron: 218
...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 - Liczba stron: 338
...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 - Liczba stron: 336
...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 - Liczba stron: 490
...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 - Liczba stron: 506
...accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a 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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To the University of Oxford / 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... 
