...degree of ignorance of Edward Gibbon when he left these precincts for ever ! He wrote afterwards — " To the University of Oxford I 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...

...unavoidably of the famous sentence which Gibbon directed at Oxford: "She will as cheerfully renounce me as a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." In a final stroke, Milton concludes "the demonstration of what we should not do," and exhibits the...

...would not seem to have lost much by this forced separation : " 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." Removed from Oxford, he was placed at Lausanne, in Switzerland, under the care of a pious clergyman,...

...which it is impossible for me to imitate To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligations, and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother.' Johnson was a man who could take the rough with the smooth, and, to judge by all accounts, the Oxford...

...;" and it did little for Gibbon except provide a library. " 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." 7. Kin father sent him to Lausanne, and placed him under the care of M. Pavilliard, the Protestant...

...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 renounce me for a son, as I anwilling to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they proved the...

...their duty to the young men committed to their charge. " To the University of Oxford," he says, " / 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...

...intellectual life comments with unsparing severity upon the learned body intrusted with his education : ""To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation:...son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. " His great contemporarj, Hume, •owed so little to scholastic influences that the bare fact of his...

...intellectual life comments with unsparing severity upon the learned body intrusted with his education : ' 'To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation...son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. " His great contemporary , Hume, owed so little to scholastic influences that the bare fact of his...

...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 urif...