 The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of -uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Էջ 2321881Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1885
...public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching ' . . . 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,... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1892 - 430 էջ
...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,...uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee house and the 1 First published in 1753. common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied,... | |
 | Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte - 1886 - 504 էջ
...given up even the pretence of teaching.' He testifies that, in his time, ' the Fellows of Magdalen were decent easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts...and the common-room ; till they retired, weary and well-satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved... | |
 | George Charles Brodrick - 1886 - 235 էջ
...given up even the- pretence of teaching.' He testifies that, in his time, ' the Fellows of Magdalen were decent easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts...and the common-room; till they retired, weary and well-satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887
...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,...gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a scries of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till... | |
 | George Elliott Howard - 1890 - 36 էջ
...the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching"... 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,... | |
 | 1890
...its history had Oxford reached such a depth of degeneracy. 'The fellows of my time,' savs Gibbon, ' were decent easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts...uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-nouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 446 էջ
...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,...; the chapel and the hall, the coffeehouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 446 էջ
...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,...; the chapel and the hall, the coffeehouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 701 էջ
...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,...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,... | |
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