 ... 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 strani
...Swift's Works, 1803, ii. 202. * Ante, CONGREVE, 4. 3 Swift, writing of himself, says : — 'He was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency...a manner little to his credit, which is called in that College speciali gratia' Craik, p. 513. See also ib. p. 12 and Forster, p. 28, for his College... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1905 - 410 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 left Ireland to take a position as under-sccretary to a distant relative, Sir William Temple,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1909 - 1408 strani
...with great regularity ; but was ' stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency, and at last admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratia.' In a college roll of the Easter term, 1685 (facsimile in FORSTEK'S Life... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 492 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." In other words, Swift's university career was not eminently successful... | |
 | 1914 - 884 strani
...consummation. He remembered Swift who, as he said of himself, 'was stopped of his degree for dullness and insufficiency and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college "speciali gratia.'" The degree of Bachelor of Arts, Speciali Gratia — BASG Why not?... | |
 | Fox - 2003 - 306 strani
...when the time came for taking his degree of Batchelor ... he was stopped of his Degree, for Dullnesse and Insufficiency, and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his Credit, which is called in that College Special! gratia, And this discreditable mark, as I am told, stands upon record in their... | |
 | 1876 - 858 strani
...bachelor of arts, although he had lived with great regularity and due obscrvance 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 [Trinity College, Dublin] sfeciali gralid, on the 1 5th February, 1085, with four more... | |
 | 1914 - 1238 strani
...consummation. He remembered Swift who, as he said of himself, ' was stopped of his degree for dullness and insufficiency and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college "speciali gratia.'" The degree of Bachelor of Arts, Speciali Gratia — BASG Why not?... | |
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