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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. "
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent ... - Page 304
by John Aikin - 1803
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Memoirs, Issue 64

Mark Pattison - Biography - 1885 - 352 pages
...learning than it was in character and deportment. Gibbon says of himself that he "arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." I at eighteen had nothing to compare with the historical reading which Gibbon could show at fifteen....
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...was sent to Oxford, with — as he says himself in his short autobiography — " a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He astonished the fellows and students there : " a thin little figure, with a large head, disputing...
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The English Language: Its Grammar, History, and Literature: With Chapters on ...

John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1886 - 428 pages
...directions, and so defective in others, that he went there, he tells us himself, "with a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He was very fond of disputation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to...
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Landmarks of English Literature

Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...was entered at Edward Gibbon. 271 Magdalen College, Oxford, he possessed "a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance...of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." In other words, his miscellaneous and historical knowledge was great : his acquaintance with Latin more...
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Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 45

1909 - 1034 pages
...matriculated at Magdalen College, giving this account of his preparation: ''I arrived at Oxford," he said, '' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no benefit....
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1887 - 1040 pages
...difficulty of reconciling the S'ptuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a ğlock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and...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...
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The English Language: Its Grammar, History, and Literature, with Chapters on ...

John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...directions, and so defective in others, that lie went there, he tells us himself, "with a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He was very fond of dis-putation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to...
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The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature : with Chapters on ...

John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 494 pages
...directions, and so defective in others, that he went there, he tells us himself, "with a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He was very fond of disputation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to...
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Landmarks of English Literature

Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1889 - 636 pages
...Edward Gibbon. ', •?. . . 271 Magdalen College, Oxford, he possessed "a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy wouldi hare been ashamed." In other words, his miscellaneous and historical knowledge was great : his...
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Lives of English Authors: A Biographical History of English Literature

Authors, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...attention to his studies. From Westminster he passed in 1752 to Oxford, where he arrived, he tells us, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The meaning of that is, that while too ill for regular study during his school-days, he had been devouring...
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