 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...loyalty for the houfe of Hanover. A General election was now approaching : the great Oxfordfhire contefl already blazed with all the malevolence of party-zeal....Magdalen College •was devoutly attached to the old intereft! and the names of Wenman and Dafhwood were more frequently pronounced , than thofe of Cicero... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth. The e*amj>le of the senior fellows could not inspire the under-graduates with a liberal spirit or stu.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull...College was devoutly attached to the old interest ! and ihe names of Wenman and Dashwood were more frequently pronounced, than those of Cicero and Chrysostom.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of yot^h; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen college was devotedly attached to the old interest; and the names of Wenman and... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen college was devotedly attached to the old interest; and the names of Wenman and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potation* excused the bri§k intempérant of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not...Hanover. A general election was now approaching : the ereat Oxfordshire contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party-zeal. Magdston College w:u... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ! their dull...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen College was devoutly attached to the old interest ; and the names of Wenman and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen College was devoutly attached to the old interest ; and the names of Wenman and... | |
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I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and fondly expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes,... 
