...farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. B3 " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Lord King, in his LIFE or LOCKE, remarks ; " That Locke regretted his education...

...farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Lord King, in his LIFE OF LOCKE, remarks; " That Locke regretted his education...

...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...was matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College. To Oxford, he informs us, lie brought " a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." During the three last years, although sickness interrupted a regular course of instruction, his fondness...

...peruse many historical and geographical works; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, 'with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence at Oxford ; his tutors he describes as...

...many historical and geographical works ; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, ' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence at Oxford ; his tutors he describes as...

...many historical and geographical works ; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, ' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence at Oxford; his tutors he describes as...

...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled...ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...insatiable thirst for reading. In his fifteenth year he " arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. "•)• At Magdalen College he was neglected by his tutors, and fell into habits of dissipation and...

...gentleman commoner of Magdalen College, 'with a stock of erudition that ' might have puzzled a professor, and a degree of ignorance, of ' which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.' Rapidly had the lineaments of his intellectual character been assuming their shape and consistency....