 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...for a mother. I fpent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable 'of my whole life: the reader will pronounce between the fchool and the fcholar; but I cannot affect to believe that Nature had difqualrfied me for all literary... | |
 | English poetry - 1797 - 846 pages
...for a mother. 1 fpent fourteen months 4.1 Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable of my whole life :• the reader will pronounce between the fchool and the ichoiar ; but I cannot affeét to believe that Nature had difqualified me for all literary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 786 pages
...for a mother. I fpent fourt/en months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between tlie fchool and the fcholar ; but I cannot affedl: to believe that Nature had difqualified me for all... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...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....scholar ; but I cannot affect to believe that nature has disqualified me for all literary pursuits. 'c Perhaps, in a separate annotation, I may coolly examine... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...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...whole life : the reader will pronounce between the schdol and the scholar : but I cannot affect to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all literary... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...no obligation; and she will ascheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college;...most idle and unprofitable of my whole life ; the reader-will pronounce between the school and the scholar; but I cannot affect to believe that Nature,... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...to disclaim her for a mother. I spent 14 months at Magdalen College; they prated the 14 months lite most idle and unprofitable of my whole life: the reader will pronounce hetween the school and the scholar; but I cannot ailed to helieve that Nature had disqualified me for... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...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 - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...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 school and the scholar : but I cannot affect to to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all * The subject of the expulsion of this object by... | |
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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... 
