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... honours , and not half the inducement to play the fool and run up debts , that I had , in short , when I talk to him , it's plain he is going pretty straight a - head , and all the better for the advice I have given him from time to ...
... honours , and not half the inducement to play the fool and run up debts , that I had , in short , when I talk to him , it's plain he is going pretty straight a - head , and all the better for the advice I have given him from time to ...
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... honours I knew not , still less how to manage about college lectures , and turn them to the best account . Here was the effect of ignorance again , and not mere temptation , which some are too lazy or thoughtless to resist . Had I known ...
... honours I knew not , still less how to manage about college lectures , and turn them to the best account . Here was the effect of ignorance again , and not mere temptation , which some are too lazy or thoughtless to resist . Had I known ...
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... honours and University prizes , that was new too . Latin and Greek was a sort of commodity , of which enough was reckoned as good as a great deal . A man went to College to be made a gentleman of , and sometimes because there was a ...
... honours and University prizes , that was new too . Latin and Greek was a sort of commodity , of which enough was reckoned as good as a great deal . A man went to College to be made a gentleman of , and sometimes because there was a ...
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... honours had he gone to Cambridge , nor would Woodley have been so distinguished had he entered at Oxford . There was a man of Skimmery ( St. Mary Hall ) who had been previously at Cambridge , where , as I heard from a Fellow of his ...
... honours had he gone to Cambridge , nor would Woodley have been so distinguished had he entered at Oxford . There was a man of Skimmery ( St. Mary Hall ) who had been previously at Cambridge , where , as I heard from a Fellow of his ...
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... honours as a matter of course is that neces- sary ? " " I think you will say so if I tell you that all the reading requisite to obtain a common degree at either university would not occupy most men an hour a day . The times are past in ...
... honours as a matter of course is that neces- sary ? " " I think you will say so if I tell you that all the reading requisite to obtain a common degree at either university would not occupy most men an hour a day . The times are past in ...
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