 | 1878 - 1074 páginas
...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 mouths the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between the school... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 páginas
...obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for mouths the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between the school... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 páginas
...acknowledge no obligation, and she will as readily 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 most idle and unprofitable of my whole life. The reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar."... | |
 | Robert Galloway - 1881 - 488 páginas
...will as readily renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim * Trinity College, Dublin. her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they proved the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life. " The reader, states his biographer, will pronounce between... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 páginas
...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...had disqualified me for all literary pursuits." The cause of his quitting Oxford so soon forms one of the few romantic episodes of Gibbon's life. In the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 páginas
...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...disqualified me for all literary pursuits. The specious and read v excuse of my tender age, imperfect preparation, and hasty departure, may doubtless be alleged... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 796 páginas
...from them apparently derived no benefit. " I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College," he wrote; " they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." He became a Roman Catholic. It was quite characteristic of this bookish man that his conversion was... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1890 - 866 páginas
...doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed,' and here he spent fourteen months—' the most idle and unprofitable...will pronounce between the school and the scholar.' From his childhood he had been fond of religious disputation, and his incursions into the bewildering... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 páginas
...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 urif profitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar ; but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1890 - 848 páginas
...which a schoolboy might have been ashamed,' and here he spent fourteen months — 'the most idle ami unprofitable of my whole life ; the reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar.' From his childhood he had been fond of religious disputation, and his incursions into the bewildering... | |
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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... 
