| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...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,...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
...supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder: their days were filled by a series of uniform meployments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the...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 - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a scries of uniform form employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...gift« of 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...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 pages
...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,...thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...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,...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...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,...reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience : and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the grcund, without yielding... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...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
...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...student with such examples before him, might well be excused for indolence Gibbon afterwards, when at Lausanne, paid much attention to classical literature,... | |
| Royal Robbins - History - 1837 - 732 pages
...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 hall,...student with such examples before him, might well be excused for indolence. Gibbon afterwards, when at Lausanne, paid much attention to classical literature,... | |
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