 ... could avail me nothing in a country where every peasant was a better musician than I : but by this time I had acquired another talent, which answered my purpose as well, and this was a skill in disputation. In all the foreign universities and convents...  Vicar of Wakefield - Page 130by Oliver Goldsmith - 1901 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 730 pages
...every adventitious difputant ; for which, if the champion oppofes with any dexterity, he can cl.iicn a gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one night. In this manner therefore 1 fought my way towards England, walking along from city to city, examined mankind more nearly, and,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pages
...difputant; for which, if the champion ' oppofes with any dexterity, he can claim a gratuity in mo' ney, a dinner, and a bed for one night. In this manner,...city; examined mankind more nearly; ' and, if I may fo exprefs it, faw both fides of the picture. ' My remarks, however, are but few: I found that monar'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1801 - 424 pages
...philolophical thefes maintained againft every adventitious difputant ; for which if the champion oppofes with any dexterity, he can claim a gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one ' night. * night. In this manner therefore I fought my way f towards England, walked along from city to city",... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 pages
...the ' foreign universities and convents there are upon ' certain daysphilosophical thesesmaintained against ' every adventitious disputant; for which...gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one ' night. ^m «•• . . — . ' night. In this manner therefore I fought my way * towards England, walked along... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 428 pages
...foreign universities and convents there are upon ' certain daysphilosophicalthesesmaintainedagainst ' every adventitious disputant; for which if the ' champion...gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one ' night. * night. In this manner therefore I fought my way * towards England, walked along from city to city,... | |
 | England - 1850 - 938 pages
...disputation. In all the foreign universities and convents there are, upon certain days, philosophical theses maintained against every adventitious disputant ;...with any dexterity, he can claim a gratuity in money, and dinner, and a bed for one night."1 We are told, (thongh not, as we remember, by Mr Irving,) that... | |
 | England - 1854 - 758 pages
...Continent. " In all the universities and convents there are, npon certain days, philosophical theses maintained against every adventitious disputant ;...opposes with any dexterity, he can claim a gratuity iu money, a dinner, and a bed for one night, lu this manner, then, I fonght my way towards England."... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...disputation. In all the foreign universities and convents, there are upon certain days philosophical these* maintained against every adventitious disputant; for...and a bed for one night. In this manner therefore I sought my way towards England, walked along from city to city, examined mankind more nearly, and, if... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...In many of the foreign universities and convents there are, upon certain days, philosophical theses maintained against every adventitious disputant; for...gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one night. The talents of Goldsmith frequently enabled him to command the relief afforded by this useful and hospitable... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...gratuity, at the monasteries. — *' Thus," says he, " I fought my way from convent to convent, walked from city to city, examined mankind more nearly, and, if I may so express it, saw both sides of the pieture." The professed design of THE TRAVELLER, is to establish as an axiom, "that every state has... | |
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