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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 scries of uniform form employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, -weary... "
The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ... - Page 35
by Edward Gibbon - 1814
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Academic Freedom in Canada: A History

Michiel Horn - Education - 1998 - 476 pages
...by a series of uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common-room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a...thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience.' What was sauce for the college fellows was, apparently, sauce also for the professors, those who held...
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Troublemaker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor

Kathleen Burk - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 536 pages
...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...ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public.7 What one might call the early modern history of the college began in 1885, with the election...
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Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

William Clark - Education - 2008 - 669 pages
...Chappel 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...ingenuity withered on the ground without yielding any fruit to the owners or the public.29 Until the nineteenth century, England had only two universities...
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The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648-1815

T. C. W. Blanning - History - 2007 - 764 pages
...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...learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without 503 yielding any fruits to the owners or the public.' If this seems like a world we have lost, one...
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The Works of Edward Gibbon, Volume 13

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1907 - 412 pages
...enjoyed the gifts of the founder ; their days were filled by a series of uniform employments, the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee-house and the common room,...slumber. From the toil of reading or thinking, or founded Magdalen 1458 — merit under James II., zeal, privileges. Ayliffe, Hist. of Oxford, Vol. ip...
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