 | Edward Gibbon, William Smith - 1862 - 466 pages
...endowed for the habitation of science. My own introduction to the university of Oxford forms a new aera in my life ; and at the distance of forty years I...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown which distinguish a gentleman-commoner from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a schoolboy... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 pages
...fifteenth year of my age (April 3, 1752). " My own introduction to the university of Oxford forms a new era in my life ; and at the distance of forty years I...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown which distinguish a gentleman-commoner from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a school-boy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 pages
...endowed for the habitation of science. My own introduction to the university of Oxford forms a new aera in my life ; and at the distance of forty years I...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown, which distinguish a gentleman commoner from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a schoolboy... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...endowed for the habitation of science. My own introduction to the university of Oxford forms a new era in my life; and at the distance of forty years I still...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown which distinguish a gentlemancommoner from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a school-boy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...endowed for the habitation of science. My own introduction to the University of Oxford forms a new era in my life ; and at the distance of forty years I...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown which distinguish a gentleman -commoner from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a school-boy... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 pages
...endowed for the habitation of science. My own introduction to the University of Oxford forms a new era in my life; and at the distance of forty years I still...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown, which distinguish a gentleman commoner from a plebeian student A decent allowance, more money than a school-boy... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 pages
...endowed for the habitation of science. My own introduction to the University of Oxford forms a new era in my life ; and at the distance of forty years I...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown, which distinguish a gentleman commoner from a plebeian student. À decent allowance, more money than a school-boy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pages
...their own expense, or that of the founders; and the stated hours of the hall and chapel represent t lie discipline of a regular, and, as it were, a religious...academical rank entertained me with every mark of attention anil civility ; and my vanity was nattered by the velvet cap and silk gown which distinguish a gentleman-commoner... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...habitation of science. My own introduction to the university of Oxford forms 47a a new aera in ray life ; and at the distance of forty years I still...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown, which distinguish a gentleman commoner from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a schoolboy... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...blood. The use of arms is banished from our English universities; the uniform habit of the academics, the square cap, and black gown, is adapted to the...was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown, which distinguish a gentleman commoner from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a schoolboy... | |
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My own introduction to the university of Oxford forms a new sera in my life ; and at the distance of forty years I still remember my first emotions of surprise and satisfaction. In my fifteenth year I felt myself suddenly raised from a boy to a man ;... 
