...tuition at home, he was sent to Oxford before he had completed his fifteenth year, and arrived there "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first I'nivcrsity is anything but creditable to the institution, in a...

...example of their unpowdered ring-leader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " 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." Southey could , perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession. Westminster...

...example of their unpowdered ringleader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " 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.'' Southoy could, perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession. Westminster...

...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...intellectual condition at that time is curious enough : " I arrived there with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy might have been ashamed." It was natural. He had read extensively, though at random ; and, his memory...

...commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, while too ill for study during his school-days,...

...commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, while too ill for study during his school-days,...

...morally the most worthless of my life. Gibbon says, he left Oxford with an amount of learning which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. For my part, I can honestly say, that I imbibed there the morality as well as the philosophy of the...

...life. Gibbon says, he left Oxford with an amount of learning which might have puzzled a doctor, aud a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. For my part, I can honestly say, that I imbibed there the morality as well as the philosophy of the...

...peruke 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...