 ... he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency ; and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratid, on the 15th February 1685, with four more on the same footing: and this discreditable...  The Cornhill Magazine - Stran 175uredili: - 1876Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1893 - 974 strani
...fame. " He was stopped of his degree," he himself writes in his autobiographical notes, "for dullness and insufficiency, and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college spetiali gratia." Recent biographers have striven to prove that this really meant nothing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 strani
...bachelor of arts, although he had lived with great regularity and due observance of the statutes, he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratia, on the 15lh February, 1685, with four more on the same footing, and this... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 404 strani
...bachelor of arts, although he had lived with great regularity and due observance of the statutes, he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratid, on the 15th February 1685, with four more on the same footing: and this... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 400 strani
...bachelor of arts, although he had lived with great regularity and due observance of the statutes, he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratid, on the 15th February 1685, with four more on the same footing: and this... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 436 strani
...youths of fame. ' He was stopped of his degree,' he himself writes in his autobiographical notes,' for dulness and insufficiency: and at last hardly...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratia! Recent biographers have striven to prove that this really meant nothing... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 300 strani
...fame. " He was stopped of his degree," he himself writes in his autobiographical notes, "for dullness and insufficiency, and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratia." Recent biographers have striven to prove that this really meant nothing... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 strani
...Bachelor of Arts, although he had lived with great regularity and due observance of the statutes, he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college vpeciali gratia." In a report of one of the college examinations, discovered by Mr. Forster,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 strani
...Bachelor of Arts, although he had lived with great regularity and due observance of the statutes, he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college spedali gratia." There is sufficient reason to believe that the " great regularity " which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 276 strani
...with great regularity and due observance of the statutes, he was stopped of his degree for dulnees and insufficiency ; and at last hardly admitted, in...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college »peciali gratia. And this discreditable mark, as I am told, stands upon record in their... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1902 - 450 strani
...University of Dublin, where, as he says, he was " stopped of his degree for dulness and unsufficiency; and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit." In 1689 he 190 left Ireland to take a position as under-secretary to a distant relative, Sir William... | |
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