 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 Seiten
...conf»-ffion of an error. We may fcarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act; and fo deeply are they rooted in law and prejudice , that even the omnipotence of parliament would fhrink from an inquiry into the ftate and abufes of the two univerfities. The ufe of academical degrees,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 Seiten
...the confeffion of an erron We may fcarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary a<3 ; and fo deeply are they rooted in law and prejudice, that even the omnipotence of parliament would ihrink from an inquiry into the (late and abufes of the two univcrfities. The ufe of academical degrees,... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 Seiten
...independent artists ; and the new improvements, so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those...an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation \vill be a voluntary act ; and se deeply vol. a, E £ are they rooted in law and prejudice, that even"... | |
 | 1831 - 576 Seiten
...independent artists ; and the new ' improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, ' are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance, in those...a rival, and below the confession ' of an error.' Even though the directors of a great association like the East India Company, were disposed to extend... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 Seiten
...independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those...into the state and abuses of the two universities. t The use of academical degrees, as old as the thirteenth century, is visibly borrowed from the mechanic... | |
 | 1815 - 564 Seiten
...eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admit ted with slow and sullen reluctance into these proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error; v,e may scarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act, and so deeply are they rooted in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 Seiten
...artists: and the new improvements eo eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted \\ith slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations,...that even the omnipotence of parliament would shrink frum an inquiry into the state and abuses of the two universities. The use of academical degrees, as... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 Seiten
...competition :: freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporation«, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely beft that any reformation will be a voluntary act ; and so deeply are they rooted in the <i<* and prejudice,... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 Seiten
...independant artists; and the new improvements, so eagerly grasped hy the competition of freedom, are admitted, with slow and sullen reluctance in those...the fear of a rival and below the confession of an error."—P. 35. After reading the foregoing passages, shall I be told that Mr. Gibbon had not in view... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 594 Seiten
...positive case of dereliction of their high duties might, perhaps, have been made out — observed, that even the omnipotence of parliament would shrink from an inquiry into the state of of the two universities. The Reviewer thus comments upon this passage : — , ' The difficulty of... | |
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... the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive: their work is more costly and less productive than that of independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen... 
