 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...many are left for the liberal arts ; what is the form, and what the substance, of their lessons f ' But all these questions are silenced by one short...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. " The Oxford professors ate secure in the enjoyment of a fixed stipend, without the necessity of labour,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...consent that his neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. If the authority to which he is subject resides, not so much in the body corporate of which he is a... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pages
...substance of their lessons ? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer : The greater part of the public professors have, for these many years given up even the pretence of teaching."—P. 36. To this answer, which is founded upon the evidence of Dr.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...liberal arts ? what is the form, and what the substance of their kaMons I But all these questions ar silenced by one short and singular answer, " That...belief on the positive and impartial evidence of a marter of moral and political wisdom, who had himself resided at Oxford. Dr. Adam Smith assigns as... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...consent that his neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. If the authority to which he is subject resides, not so much in the body corporate of which he is a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...faculties, and how many are left for the liberal arts? what is the form, and what the substance, of their lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one...the pretence of teaching." Incredible as the fact mayappear, I must rest my belief on the positive and impartial evidence of a master of moral and political... | |
 | Reasons - 1843 - 68 pages
...Smith, who had been a student there, and who of course had good opportunities of knowing the truth, " the greater part of the public professors have, for...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Now, granting matters to have mended at Oxford since the days of Adam Smith, still it is impossible... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...consent that his neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. ' If the authority to which he is subject resides, not so much in the body corporate of which he is... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 568 pages
...censure confirmed by the earlier testimony of Adam Smith, and the later experience of Sir William Jones. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the...public professors ' have for these many years given up even the pretence of teaching.' * There were, it is true, brilliant exceptions even then. Lowth, Blackstone,... | |
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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. 
