 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...School, he commenced residence at Magdalene College, Oxford, he carried with him, as he himself says, " a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Hi,s impressions of Oxford were not favourable; and the picture which he draws of the inner life of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...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... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...course of his instruction ; but he had of his own accord read widely. " I arrived at Oxford," he says, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Such an irregular boyish career was a bad preparation for a university course : we must therefore make... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...course of his instruction; but he had of his own accord read widely. "I arrived at Oxford," he says, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Such an irregular boyish career was a bad preparation for a university course : we must therefore make... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. "With such acquirements, " I arrived at Oxford," says he, " with a stock of erudition...ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The transition to the University was well calculated to make a marked impression on a youth whose intellectual... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 514 pages
...with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor," but, also, on his own showing, with " a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Writing in middle life, he allows himself to observe that he had never consciously bought a book from... | |
 | James Davies (of Southport.) - 1873 - 228 pages
...tutors, and, finally, entered Magdalen College, Oxford, " with an amount of erudition . . . that would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed," — remained at college ouly 14 months, continuing his wide and desultory reading, and, after a bout... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...especially of historical and geographical works; and the consequence was, that he arrived at Oxford " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He spent fourteen months at college idly and unprofitably, according to his own account. His desultory... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...circulating library, and he read through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, ath ; and h } He had no ambition ; his father was dead, and he actually thought of apprenticing himself to a shoemaker... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...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... | |
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I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. 
