...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...

...sehr gering einschätzt ('To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no Obligation ... I spent fourtecn months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable "f niy whole life. Autobiography") und Grote, von Philosophen gar Hume nnd Spencer zeigen, wie häufig...

...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...

...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.' Gibbon's picture of his college dons, ' the monks of Magdalen ' as he calls them, is not pleasant :...

...College, Oxford, during his residence there. I spent fourteen months [he says] at Magdalen College, the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life; the...disqualified me for all literary pursuits. . . . The fellows of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. . . . From...

...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 most idle and unprofitable months of my whole life." ' ' Gibbon,' Rhodes went on, ' had far more to...

...no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her as a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College:...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." Nor was there substantial disagreement between Gibbon and Newman about this (though there was about...

...1977), 132 [ch. 19]. 8. Gibbon's precise indictment of Oxford as the home of torpor and ignorance — "I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they...months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life" — may have been overdrawn, but not by much. The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon (1794; ed. Dero A....

...of Christ Church as a gentleman-commoner at the end of 1 760. A little while before this Gibbon had spent "fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life". His remarks about the university, so admirably and so memorably expressed, have coloured the general...

...no obligatlon; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a 3912 Memoirs of My Life Dr - well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that...