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" Scholars : in a Society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, incited industry, and awakened genius ; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom of thought, was raised, encouraged, and... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 509
by Edward Gibbon - 1826
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The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal

Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...them to be Pragmatical pnd Infulent.' Clafeodou's H:ftory ; Vol. iii, jp. 246 : 8ťo. * and ftudies, and in the agreeable and improving commerce of Gentlemen...Society, where emulation without envy, ambition without jealoufy, contention without animoiity, incited induftry, and awakened genius ; where a liberal purfuit...
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 9

1805 - 510 pages
...famous seat of learning so largely affords. I spent many happy years in that illustrious society, in a well-regulated course of useful discipline and studies,...contention without animosity, incited industry, and trvvakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom of thought, was raised,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 7

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 510 pages
...well regula.ed course of useful discipline and studies, and in the improving commerce of gentlemen and scholars, in a society where emulation without envy,...ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity excited industry, and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 7

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...well regulated course of useful discipline and studies, and in the improving commerce of gentlemen and scholars, in a society where emulation without envy,...ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity excited industry, and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom...
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The Quarterly Review (london)

Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity excited industry, and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom of thought was raised, encouraged and pushed forward by example, .by commendation,...
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The Quarterly Theological Magazine, and Religious Repository ..., Volume 1

Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...society where emulation vithout envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, excited industry and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom of thought was raised, encouraged, and pushed forward by example, by commendt ation,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...that famous seat of learning so largely affords. I spent many years in that illustrious society, in a well-regulated course of useful discipline and studies,...thought, was raised, encouraged, and pushed forward bv example, by commendation, ' and by authority. I breathed the same atmosphere that the HOOKERS, the...
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Memoir and correspondence of ... sir James Edward Smith, Volume 1

lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pages
...the inexorable doors." He spent about two years in that accomplished community, in a well regulated course of useful discipline and studies, and in the...agreeable and improving commerce of gentlemen and scholars ; in a society, where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 1

Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...well-regulated course of useful discipline and studies, and in the improving commerce of gentlemen and scholars, in a society where emulation without envy,...ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, excited industry and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge and a generous freedom of...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 6

Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...society where emulation without envy, ambition w ithout jealousy, contention without animosity, excited industry and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge and a generous freedom of thought was raised, encouraged, and pushed forward by example, by commendation,...
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