 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 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...had disqualified me for all literary pursuits. The spacious and ready excuse of my tender age, imperfect preparation, and hasty departure, may doubtless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 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...will pronounce between the school and the scholar; butI cannot affect to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all literary pursuits. The specious... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 páginas
...obligation ; and she will as chearfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College...to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all litterary pursuits. The specious and ready excuse of my tender age, imperfect preparation, and hasty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 páginas
...obligation ; and she will as chearfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. | I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College...to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all litterary pursuits. The specious and ready excuse of my tender age, imperfect praeparation, and hasty... | |
 | John Meredith Read - 1897 - 586 páginas
...an eminent character — for instance, over that so long the abode of Charles Eeade. Gibbon says : ' I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.' It seems probable that Gibbon, in this judgment of Magdalen, was unconsciously influenced by personal... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 720 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;...pronounce between the school and the scholar, but I canuot affect to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all literary pursuits. The specious and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 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 ; they proved the fourteen 3° months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life. The reader will pronounce between the school... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 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...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." He received scarcely any instruction ; he was not even directed in his studies and reading ; and, worst... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 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...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life 4 : the reader will pronounce between 1 J" In the time of Job the crime of impiety was punished by... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 254 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." No doubt to an economist of time like Gibbon, a ' period... | |
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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... 
