A History of the University of Oxford

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Longmans, Green, 1886 - 235 pages

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Page 176 - That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
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Page 176 - 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 well satisfied, to a long slumber.
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Page 150 - yielded a harvest of extraordinary good and sound knowledge in all parts of learning, and many who were wickedly introduced applied themselves to the study of good learning and the practice of virtue...

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