 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 páginas
...f ' But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...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 - 1809 - 514 páginas
...neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...kaMons I But all these questions ar silenced by one short and singular answer, " That in the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...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 páginas
...neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...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 - 382 páginas
...lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, "That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...of a master of moral and political wisdom, who had himsfelf resided at Oxford. Dr. Adam Smith assigns as the cause of their indolence, that, instead of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 páginas
...lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer, "That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...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... | |
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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. 
