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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. "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page vi
by Edward Gibbon - 1813
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a flock of erudition , that might have puzzled a doctor, and...ignorance, of which a fchool-boy would have been afhamed. At the conclufion of this firfl period of my life, I am tempted to enter a proteft againft the trite...
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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pages
...Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with aftock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doftor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a fchool-boy would have been afhamed. At the conclufion of this firft period of my life, I am tempted to enter a proteft againft the trite...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1797 - 846 pages
...Hebrew computation. I ar-v rived at Oxford with a ftock of erudition, tint might have puzzled a doftor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a fchool-boy would have been aihamed." " To tlie univerfity of Oxford / acknowlege no obligation; and ihe will as cheerfully renounce...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 1

1797 - 610 pages
...Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a llock of erudition that might have puzzled a doftor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a fchool-boy would have been afliamed." At the conclufion of this firft period of his life, Mr. Gibbon was tempted to enter a proteft...
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Annual Register, Volume 38

Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 pages
...the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a ftock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance, of which a fchool-boy would have been afhamed. To the univerfity of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation; and (lie will as cheerfully renounce me for...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111

1860 - 566 pages
...the melodies of his native tongue. Gibbon describes himself as taking with him to Oxford 'a ' stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a ' degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ' ashamed.' Milton probably had nothing to be ashamed of on the one score,...
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General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most ..., Volume 4

John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...usual in a literary progress at that period of life. " I arrived at Oxford," says he, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." In this state it is evident that he was ill prepared to receive...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...that of some others at the same period of life. He says of himself: I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. Under such circumstances, he was but ill prepared to receive the...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. • At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 15

Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pages
...matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalencollege. To Oxford, he informs us, he brought " a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." During the last three years, although sickness interrupted a regular...
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