 | Literature - 1909 - 860 pages
...College and his University: — I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled я doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and slie will as cheerfully renounce me for... | |
 | William Angus Knight - Oxford (England) - 1911 - 296 pages
...3, 1752). ... I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and o a degree of ignorance, of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. . . . A traveller, who visits Oxford or Cambridge, is surprised and edified by the apparent order and... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 472 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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." 4 He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1916 - 482 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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." 4 He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...the difficulty of recon" ciling 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. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge " no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1923 - 430 pages
...his celebrated words, though for that matter almost every word in the Autobiography is celebrated, with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed —for example, he did not know the Greek alphabet, nor is there any reason to suppose that he would... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1923 - 430 pages
...his celebrated words, though for that matter almost every word in the Autobiography is celebrated, with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed — for example, he did not know the Greek alphabet, nor is there any reason to suppose that he would... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1924 - 862 pages
...the atmosphere into which Gibbon was flung 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 and unprofitable of... | |
 | Gustave Rudler - France - 1923 - 546 pages
...accomplished the fifteenth year of his age. « I arrived at Oxford » he says « with a stock of erudition as might have puzzled a doctor and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy must have been ashamed ». He goes on to describe the Oxford of his day : « A traveller who visits... | |
 | Sir Charles Edward Mallet - 1927 - 606 pages
...Holywell Street near by.8 A delicate boy, barely fifteen, bringing from his irregular school-days " a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed," he was entered at Magdalen as a Gentleman Commoner in April 1752. The boy was a born reader. He has... | |
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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. 
