 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 str.
...the founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform employments, the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee-house and the common room, till they retired,...toil of reading or thinking, or writing, they had 16 Lively picture in Hist, de 1'Acad., tom. 27. p. 219 (from QmrmTs own Comment., tom. ip 850 — Artificumq.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 str.
...the founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform employments, the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee-house and the common room, till they retired,...toil of reading or thinking, or writing, they had 16 Lively picture in Hist. de 1'Acad., <om. 27. p. 219 (from Quirini's own Comment., tom. ip 850 —... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 614 str.
...personal stories, and private scandal.' They drank hard, slept long, were still vehement Jacobites ; and ' from the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience.' Every one will remember the sneering parallel or contrast between the monks of Magdalen... | |
 | Joseph Wells - 1897 - 356 str.
...Autobiography, as the " monks of Magdalen," "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." Of course Gibbon was not quite fifteen when he entered the college, and had only been... | |
 | 1897 - 606 str.
...personal stories, and private scandal.' They drank hard, slept long, were still vehement Jacobites ; and ' from the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience.' Every one will remember the sneering parallel or contrast between the monks of Magdalen... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 str.
...founder. Their days were filled by a series of uniform 30 employments — the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room — till they...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience, and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 str.
...gentleman-commoner, he was admitted to the Society of the Fellows of the University ; but he found that "from the toil of reading or thinking or writing they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 str.
...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,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 str.
...The fellows of my time were decent easy men, who sapiently enjoyed the gifts of the founder. . . . From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience ; and the first shoots of learning or ingenuity withered in the ground, without yielding... | |
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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... 
