 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 238 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... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1903 - 234 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...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." — EDWARD GIBBON, Memoirs of My Life and Writings. " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading... | |
 | Charles Franklin Thwing - 1903 - 244 páginas
...wish to come to college. The Oxford of Gibbon has forever passed away. You recall his description. " I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they...most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." The colleges of Oxford and Cambridge were founded in an age of darkness and of barbarous sciences, and... | |
 | 1881 - 862 páginas
...no obligation," he cries, calling upon the reader to decide between the school and the scholar : " I cannot affect to believe that nature had disqualified me for all literary pursuits." Whenever he approaches this subject there is a tone of resentment in his voice. His description of... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 324 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." But Gibbon had that which Oxford could neither give nor... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 388 páginas
...and 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." s He became a Roman Catholic. It was quite characteristic of this bookish man that his conversion was... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - 568 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;...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life " ; or of Chesterfield, who wrote : " Cambridge is shrunk into the lowest obscurity, and the existence... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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;...imperfect preparation, and hasty departure may doubtless b( alleged, nor do I wish to defraud such excuses of their propel weight. Yet in my sixteenth year... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1911 - 532 páginas
...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."1 It is Edward Gibbon who, thrust forth from Oxford in his seventeenth year, because he chose... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 490 páginas
...and 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." B He became a Roman Catholic. It was quite characteristic of this bookish man that his conversion was... | |
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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... 
