 | Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...through the catalogue, folios and all. " At fourteen," says his biographer, " he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." A fatherless boy, and — as he himself tells us — " without a spark of ambition," he had seriously... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1890 - 560 pages
...nf^Tag- _ dalen College.. Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy w£uld.have "been ashamed." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, wliile too ill for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 848 pages
...the atmosphere into which Gibbon was Hung at the age of fifteen, ' with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed,' and here he spent fourteen months — 'the most idle ami unprofitable of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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 attempted to enter a protest against the trite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 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 attempted to enter a protest against the trite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint witl1 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 attempted to enter a protest against the trite... | |
 | K. Kaiser - 1891 - 120 pages
...day-dreamer" , as he describes himself, and such was Coleridge to the end of his life. At fourteen he had a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. From that school he removed to Jesus College, Cambridge; but he never took his degree, leaving the... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...prevented his acquiring exact knowledge in the regular subjects of study. His own description is the best : "erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." The amiable Mr. Francis, who was to have repaired the deficiency, went to London and forgot him. With... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 470 pages
...prevented his acquiring exact knowledge in the regular subjects of study. His own description is the best : "erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." The amiable Mr. Francis, who was to have repaired the deficiency, went to London and forgot him. With... | |
 | Lilian M. Quiller-Couch - Electronic books - 1892 - 462 pages
...had accomplished the fifteenth year of my age (April 3, 1752) . . . . ' I arrived at P. 31, Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled...ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. . . . A traveller, who visits Oxford or Cambridge, is surprised P. 32. and edified by the apparent... | |
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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. 
