 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 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 2 from a plebeian student. A decent allowance, more money than a schoolboy... | |
 | John Richard Green, Kate Norgate - 1901 - 344 pages
...morning chapel. 2 " My own introduction," say Gibbon, "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 schoolboy... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1901 - 496 pages
...from morning chapel. " My own introduction," say Gibbon, "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 schoolboy... | |
 | Alice Stopford Green - 1901 - 354 pages
...from morning chapel.- " My own introduction," say Gibbon, "to the University of Oxford forms a new era in my life, and at the distance of forty years I still...surprise and satisfaction. In my fifteenth year I felt academiccal rank entertained me with every mark of attention and civility ; and my vanity was flattered... | |
 | 1881 - 862 pages
...suppressed spite and desire to appear candid and to be just "At the distance of forty years," he says, " I still remember my first emotions of surprise and satisfaction. In my fifteenth year I found myself suddenly raised from a boy to a man ; the persons whom I respected as my superiors in... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 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... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1911 - 296 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 schoolboy... | |
 | 1911 - 492 pages
...University of Oxford forms a new era year-old in my life . an<j at tne <jistance of forty years \ stiH remember my first emotions of surprise and satisfaction....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... | |
 | 1912 - 496 pages
...1763. A fourteen- MY own introduction to the University of Oxford forms a new era jn my i,fe . ancl at the distance of forty years I still remember my...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... | |
 | 1926 - 464 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 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 ;... 
