 | 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 - 752 pages
...found in Dr. Birkbeck Hill's edition of the Memoirs, pages 50-S9, 167, 201-205, 224-225, 239-244.] To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son asT am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1911 - 532 pages
...particulars of his unprofitable stay there, he spoke the famous words which have become so widely known : — "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... | |
 | 1912 - 496 pages
...science. Gibbon's Memoirs. To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation ; and she WJH ^ cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother- IjPJ^t_f°u!te^nps at ^ they j>roved the fourteen months tlie_jaoiOdle_and_un2rpfitable pjjibxJjhde... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...that might have puzzled a " doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would " have been ashamed. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge...College he remained fourteen months, and he states those to have been the most inactive and unprofitable he ever knew: yet he was not, in his sixteenth... | |
 | David Baines-Griffiths - 1919 - 168 pages
...Edward Gibbon spent fourteen months at Magdalen College. " 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." It was of one of his instructors at Oxford that Gibbon said, " He remembered that he had a salary to... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1926 - 484 pages
...to come and gorge upon the church. Gibbon says, in his Memoirs : — 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... | |
 | 1926 - 464 pages
...gravitas upon his spirit, Gibbon goes on to say, surely illogically : ' 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... | |
 | James Gordon McDonald - 1928 - 446 pages
...superb in its diction, and I cannot understand how Gibbon could say as he did in his later life : " 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 most idle and unprofitable months... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 pages
...abilities, is rarely modest; and modesty was never one even of the last infirmities of Gibbon's noble mind. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation,...son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. . . . The reader will pronounce between the school and the scholar. ' Sir,' asked one of Johnson, in... | |
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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. 
