 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment ; nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 482 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment ; nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment; nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment ; nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment ; nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 462 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation "at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment; nor did mj tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled,... | |
 | Lilian M. Quiller-Couch - 1892 - 462 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence: the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment ; nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of lazyness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment, nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of lazyness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment, nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...was admitted with the same indulgence. The slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment, nor did my tutor appear 10 conscious of my absence or neglect. Had the hour of lecture been constantly filled, a single hour... | |
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I repeated the offence with less ceremony; the excuse was admitted with the same indulgence: the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment; nor did my tutor appear... 
