 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...parallelism, and for frequent balance of word by word. Good examples are the following : " I 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" (43, 22); "Her fortune was humble, but her family was respectable" (87, 29);... | |
 | Adolph Spaeth - 1898 - 454 pages
...which the great English historian arrived at Oxford, " having with him a stock of erudition which would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." If he be unduly curbed on the other hand, the pernicious sophism acquires additional power, and he... | |
 | Adolph Spaeth - 1898 - 464 pages
...which the great English historian arrived at Oxford, " having with him a stock of erudition which would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." If he be unduly curbed on the other hand, the pernicious sophism acquires additional power, and he... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...tongue." In his fifteenth year his physical infirmities suddenly disappeared, and he went to Oxford " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." His attainments in history were astonishing. He had read Herodotus, Xenophon, and Tacitus in translations... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - Oxford movement - 1899 - 514 pages
...cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." He entered Magdalen " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed " ; and he spent there "the fourteen most idle and unprofitable months of his whole life." It is no... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - English language - 1900 - 404 pages
...may take a knave's advice. 5. If he cannot conquer he may properly retreat. 6. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. 7. From the hall door she could look down the park. 8. Early activity may prevent late and fruitless... | |
 | 1900 - 364 pages
...may take a knave's advice. 5. If he cannot conquer he may properly retreat. 6. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. 7. From the hall door she could look down the park. 8. Early activity may prevent late and fruitless... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 pages
...India and China, of Mexico and Peru. We need hardly wonder that after such a course I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. Oxford did little for him, and Gibbon bears witness, like Butler and Gray, but with a more emphatic... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 pages
...Hebrew computation.1 I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor,2 and a degree of 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... | |
 | English language - 1901 - 458 pages
...may take a knave's advice. 5. If he cannot conquer he may properly retreat. 6. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. 7. From the hall door she could look down the park. 8. Early activity may prevent late and fruitless... | |
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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. 
