 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 360 էջ
...other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge,2 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,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 642 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,...employments; 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 էջ
...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...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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 էջ
...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...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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 էջ
...many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . The fellows or monks of my tune 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,... | |
 | George Robert Stirling Taylor - 1923 - 119 էջ
...Professors have for these many years given up even the pretence of teaching . . . The fellows of Magdalen were decent, easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder . . . From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience." The position... | |
 | 1914
...altogether even the pretense of teaching." Bentham makes the same complaint. Gibbon says: "The fellows of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founders, whose days were filled by uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house... | |
 | 1914
...evolution, but also to guard her from present excesses: "The fellows, or monks, of my time, were decent men who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder: their days were filled by a series of uniform employment; the chapel and the hall, the coffeehouse, and the common room, till they retired, weary... | |
 | Sir Frederick Dainton, Sir Frederick Sydney Dainton - 1982 - 20 էջ
...surprising that Edward Gibbon could write truthfully of the Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford that they were 'decent easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder' and referring to his own experience ofthat college commented, 'I spent fourteen months at Magdalen... | |
 | Henry J. Bourguignon - 2004 - 328 էջ
...strictly reserved for the professors of science who have approved their title to the public esteem... ... 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,... | |
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