 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1992 - 252 pages
...most eloquent when he spoke of Oxford, at which he matriculated as an undergraduate on 3 April 1751: "To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation;...renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her as a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...experience of mankind. 391 1 Memoirs of My Life To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligatlon; FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... | |
 | John Kendall Nelson - 2001 - 502 pages
...guarantee of a superlative liberal education, although Edward Gibbon's judgment appears unduly harsh: "To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation, and she will as chearfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pages
...university?'i73 And, finally, just as Gibbon would later declare his emotional independence of the university ('To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation, and she will as chearfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother'), so Knox with an equal... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - 2007 - 764 pages
...Oxford stands out for its vehemence. In his Autobiography he wrote: '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... | |
 | 1887 - 568 pages
...use in blaming, a system now passed away." What a contrast in temper to the famous words of Gibbon. " To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation,...son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." What a difference in the whole of these amiable, playful, genial Praeterita, from the posthumous recriminations... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 588 pages
...of the page : " The Revd Mr Parker of 1 ' 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. 347 Henley is in Possession of a Tea Pot which belonged to Dr Johnson, and which contains... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 pages
...generous retribution. To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as chearfully 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... | |
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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. 
