| Henry Barnard - Education - 1878 - 1068 pages
...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite... | |
| Education - 1878 - 1074 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... | |
| sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 pages
...sent to Oxford when fifteen years of age "with a stock of erudition," to quote his own words, " which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." This was at a time when our Universities were passing through the most degraded... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...read through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erndition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. He had no ambition; his father was dead, and he actually thought of apprenticing himself to a shoemaker... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 pages
...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first university is anything but creditable to the institution, in a moral... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...pledge of their loves.' At fifteen he was sent to Oxford, carrying there a stock of erudition that would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. His reading was extensive, but desultory; and his education without direction or discipline. Hence,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 842 pages
...extensive reading and interrupted education having produced "a stock of erudition that might have puzzled n doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been, ashamed." Here he spent 14 idle months, the chief result of which was. that in his incursions into controversial... | |
| Scotland - 1881 - 842 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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." The reader will find in the life of Buckle almost an exact reproduction of this precocious, presumptuous... | |
| William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...historical works ; and when he went to Oxford at the age of fifteen, he possessed " a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." At Oxford he had resided but fourteen months, when meeting in the course of his multifarious reading... | |
| Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...factors in his intellectual growth. He says that he went up to Oxford with a " stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Both erudition and ignorance were left pretty well undisturbed during his... | |
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