| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...stagnated in a round of college business, tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party-zeal. Magdalen College was devoutly attached to the old interest ! and ihe names of Wenman and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of yot^h; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of purty-zeal. Magdalen College was devoutly attached to the old interest ! and the names of \Veninan... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen college was devotedly attached to the old interest; and the names of Wenman and Dashwood were more frequently pronounced,... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen college was devotedly attached to the old interest; and the names of Wenman and Dashwood were more frequently pronounced,... | |
| 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
...stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ! their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...more frequently pronounced than those of Cicero and Chrysostom. The example of the senior fellows could not inspire the under-graduates with a liberal... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...more frequently pronounced than those of Cicero and Chrysostom. The example of the senior fellows could not inspire the under-graduates with a liberal... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...devoutly attached to the old interest ; and the names of W enman and Dashwood were more frequently pronounced than those of Cicero and Chrysostom. The example... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...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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