 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 str.
...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, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 str.
...of the founder: their days were filled by a series of uniform meployments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience: and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 str.
...founder : their days were filled by a scries of uniform form employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 str.
...the founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel arid the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired,...the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they liad absolved their conscience: and (he first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 str.
...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,...thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits... | |
 | 1830 - 336 str.
...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,...thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 str.
...series of uniform employments; the chapel and the halL the coffee-house, and the common room, lill they retired weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber....afterwards, when at Lausanne, paid much attention to classad literature, and acquired such a perfect knowledge of the French language, that he could both... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1837 - 732 str.
...their 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...such a perfect knowledge of the French language, that he could both speak and write it with as much facility as his own. A portion of his printed works is... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 str.
...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,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1838 - 728 str.
...; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house, and the common room, till they retired weary and ^ell satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,...such a perfect knowledge of the French language, that he coukl both speak and write it with as much facility as his own. A portion of his printed works is... | |
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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... 
