 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution to the university of Oxford. I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford /acknowledge no 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; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have heen ashamed. To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." At Magdalen college he remained fourteen months, and he states them to have heen the most inactive... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...from superstition to 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... | |
 | William Field - Clergy England Biography - 1828 - 490 pages
...Treatise on Education, 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... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...come and gorge upon the church.' Gibbon says, in his Memoirs : — ' To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation, and she will as cheerfully...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... | |
 | Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...Westminster to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was admitted as a gentleman-commoner, April 3, 1752. About this time his constitution, hitherto extremely...administered it, without honestly inquiring whether he had laboured to extract, even from an imperfect system, the modicum of advantage which it was capable of... | |
 | Biography - 1837 - 272 pages
...Westminster to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was admitted as a gentleman.commoner, April 3, 1752. About this time his constitution, hitherto extremely...administered it, without honestly inquiring whether he had laboured to extract, even from an imperfect system, the modicum of advantage which it was capable of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...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... | |
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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. 
