...found a more famous critic, but his attack presents the same picture. To the fifteen-year-old Gibbon The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men,...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and self-satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,...

...of stale classical subjects dictated by an old-fashioned curriculum divorced from the new sciences: "The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber."/9 Gibbon conceded progress...

...measured tones in which the passage is written hardly suggest that the account is fuelled by rancour. The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men...were filled by a series of uniform employments: the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee house, and the common r<x1m. till they retired, weary and well-satisfied,...

...along the Cam and Isis. Some of the latter took undue advantage of their security. 'The fellows ... of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder,' Edward Gibbon wrote, perhaps with pardonable exaggeration. 'Their days were filled by a series of uniform...

...Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life .... The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men,...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,...

...Germans and their ilk in the middle of things. The English The fellows or monks of my time [at Oxford] were decent easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts...were filled by a series of uniform employments: the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee house, and the common room, till they retired, weary and well-satisfied,...

...intellectual activity of the "monks" of Oxford and Cambridge (fellows were not allowed to get married): "The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder [meaning a lifetime fellowship]. Their days were filled by a series of uniform employments: the chapel...

...philosophy.' At Magdalen College he found wealth in abundance but very little learning, for the Fellows were 'decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,...

...other Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, a silent blush, or a scornful frown, will be the only reply. The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men,...were filled by a series of uniform employments, the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied,...