 | Edmund Burke - 1923 - 470 pages
...then at Oxford2 could not have been applicable to Dublin. Gibbon endorses the statement of Adam Smith3 that "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 " ; and stated that "the... | |
 | 1876 - 862 pages
...consent that his neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he is himself allowed to neglect his own." " 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." And he adds, " In England,... | |
 | 408 pages
...matter of general information. Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations (first published in 1776) says: "In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching3" ; and Mr JE Thorold Rogers,... | |
 | 404 pages
...without equal mental capacity and the same general taste for science, would expose the old lady • " In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, tor these many years, given up e»en the pretence of teaching." — Adam Smith. to such a rigour,... | |
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That 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. 
