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" To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation, and she will as cheerfully 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... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 16
by Edward Gibbon - 1805
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...for a mother. I fpent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable 'of my whole life: the reader will pronounce between the fchool and the fcholar; but I cannot affect to believe that Nature had difqualrfied me for all literary...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1797 - 846 pages
...for a mother. 1 fpent fourteen months 4.1 Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable of my whole life :• the reader will pronounce between the fchool and the ichoiar ; but I cannot affeét to believe that Nature had difqualified me for all literary...
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Annual Register, Volume 38

Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 pages
...for a mother. I fpent fourt/en months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen months the moft idle and unprofitable of my whole life : the reader will pronounce between tlie fchool and the fcholar ; but I cannot affedl: to believe that Nature had difqualified me for all...
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Gleanings in England, Volume 2

Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...generous retribution 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...scholar ; but I cannot affect to believe that nature has disqualified me for all literary pursuits. 'c Perhaps, in a separate annotation, I may coolly examine...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim...whole life : the reader will pronounce between the schdol and the scholar : but I cannot affect to believe that Nature had disqualified me for all literary...
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Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818 ..., Volume 2

Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pages
...infidelity! — " To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation; end she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent 14 months at Magdalen College; they prated the 14 months lite most idle and unprofitable of my whole...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...generous retribution. 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 foi a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

1830 - 336 pages
...retribution. /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 foi a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel ..., Volume 1

William Field - 1828 - 490 pages
...vol. ii. * Jebb's Works, vol. ii. p. 255. ' Mr. Gibbon had said of Oxford, " She will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Of Cambridge, Dr. Parr re-echoes, " Never shall I have the presumption to disclaim her as a mother...
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The Gallery of Portraits:: With Memoirs ....

1836 - 506 pages
...accomplishment. " To the University of Oxford (he says) I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Accordingly he exhausts the severity of his sarcasm, both upon the system which was there established,...
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