 | Laurence Hutton - 1903 - 324 pages
...year. "To the University of Oxford," he wrote, when he was a good deal of a man in other respects, " 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... | |
 | Charles Franklin Thwing - 1906 - 556 pages
...negligence. ' ' 1 The opinion of Edward Gibbon is more familiar, and, if possible, more impressive: " 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... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 320 pages
...with bitter truth : " 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 at Magdalen College : they proved the most idle and unprofitable of my whole... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 324 pages
...greatness. At Oxford he learned nothing, and of that period of his career said with bitter truth : " 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... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 pages
...imaginary debt to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. To the University of Oxford 7 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... | |
 | 1909 - 860 pages
...schoolboy would have been ashamed. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and slie will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. . . . During my first weeks I constantly attended lessons in my tutor's room, but as they appeared... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - 568 pages
...attitude is that of Gibbon when he wrote of the Oxford of his own day more than thirty years later : " 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...found in Dr. Birkbeck Hill's edition of the Memoirs, pages 50-59, 167, 201-205, 224-225, 239-244.] 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...found in Dr. Birkbeck Hill's edition of the Memoirs, pages 50-59, 167, 201-205, 224-225. 239-244-] 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... | |
 | 1911 - 492 pages
...palaces, which a liberal nation has erected and endowed for the habitation of science. Gibbon's Memoirs. 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... | |
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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. 
