 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...  Educational Pamphlets 4: Historical]. - Page 261885Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...afcornful frown, -vpill bs the ooly The fellows or monks of my time were decent eafy men , who fnpinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a feries of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall , the coffee-houfe and the common room,, till... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...fcornful frown, will be the only reply. The fellows or monks of my time were decent eafy men, who dipinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a fcries of uniform employments j the chapel and the hall, the cofree-houfe and the common room, till... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...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,...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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,...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, weary... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...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 form employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...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, who supinely enjoyed the gift« of the founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel arid... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...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,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...says. " were easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed I he gifts of their founder ; their days were fitted by a 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. From the toil of reading, or thinking,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - World geography - 1833 - 676 pages
...the fault. " The fellows," he says, " were easy decent men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hail, the coffee-house, and the common room, till they retired weary and well satisfied, to a long... | |
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