 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 sider
...; since I must not confess an imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution to the university of Oxford. I acknowledge no obligation...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 - 1814 - 726 sider
...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... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 sider
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 sider
...since I must not confess an imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation...renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her foi a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most... | |
 | 1830 - 336 sider
...since I must not confess an imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. /To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation...renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her foi a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most... | |
 | William Field - 1828 - 490 sider
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 558 sider
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 506 sider
...proficiency in any branch of knowledge, or any useful accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Accordingly he exhausts the severity of his sarcasm, both upon the system which was there established,... | |
 | 1837 - 272 sider
...proficiency in any branch of knowledge, or any useful accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Accordingly he exhausts the severity of his sarcasm, both upon the system which was there established,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 sider
...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. 
