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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... "
The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography;: Embracing a History of ... - Page 336
by Royal Robbins - 1833
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Gleanings in England, Volume 2

Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...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...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...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...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...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,...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...
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The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography: Embracing a History of ...

Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...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...
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Outlines of Ancient and Modern History on a New Plan: Embracing ..., Volume 1

Royal Robbins - History - 1837 - 732 pages
...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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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...
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Outlines of Ancient and Modern History, on a New Plan, Embracing ...

Royal Robbins - 1838 - 728 pages
...; 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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