 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...substance, of their lessons f ' But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the university of Oxford, the greater part...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. " The Oxford professors ate secure in the enjoyment of a fixed stipend, without the necessity of labour,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the univer" sity of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of " teaching." Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence of... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...consent that his neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. If the authority to which he is subject resides, not so much in the body corporate of which he is a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...substance, of their lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the university of Oxford, the greater part...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...substance, of their lessons > But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the university of Oxford the greater part...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence of... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...substance, of their lessons ? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the university of Oxford the greater part...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...questions aie silenced by one short anil singular answer. " That ¡n the university of Oxford, tfce greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether етег. the pretence of teaching." Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pages
...substance of their lessons ? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer : The greater part of the public professors have, for these many years given up even the pretence of teaching."—P. 36. To this answer, which is founded upon the evidence of Dr.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...substance of their lessons I But all these questions ar silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the University of Oxford, the greater part...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...substance, of their lessons ? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, "That in the university of Oxford, the greater part...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Incredible as the fact may appear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence of... | |
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That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. 
