...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....

...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...

...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 1 am tempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...indiscriminate appetite for books ' subsided by decrees in the historic line.' He arrived at Oxford, he says, е, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave....L'dmn and Angelina. ' Turn, gentle hermit of the dale, He «pent fourteen months at college idly and unprofitably, as he himself states ; and, studying the...

...indiscriminate appetite for books ' subsided by degrees in the historic line.' He arrived at Oxford, he says, e aweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on thei He spent fourteen months at college idly and unprofitably, as he himself elates ; and, studying the...

...Boswell, followed much the same plan ; and Gibbon says in his autobiography, ' I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." We always think Rabelais' abbey of Thelcmc (see No. 7, p. 512), with its one clause, 'fay ce que couldras,'...

...miscellaneous information, so that to use his own expressions, "he arrived at college with a stock of ignorance that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." His habits of easy indolence were not improved at the university. The tutors...

...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...doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed. At. the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter...

...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...doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a...

...remembered that Gibbon, when he entered at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), arrived there " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bulwer, I wonder, this passage in bis memory when he wrote of Christopher Clutterbuck : — ' My...