 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 pages
...he arrived at Oxford before the age of fifteen complete, with a stock of erudition, which, he says, might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which, he ingenuously confesses, a schoolboy would have been ashamed. Being entered a gentleman-commoner of... | |
 | 1894 - 664 pages
...Gibbon, when he entered at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), arrived there " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bulwer, I wonder, this passage in bis memory when he wrote... | |
 | 1894 - 664 pages
...Gibbon, when he entered at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), arrived there " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which ะท schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bnlwer, I wonder, this passage in his memory when he wrote... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 pages
...home, he was sent to Oxford before he had completed his fifteenth year, and arrived there "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." His description of England's first I'nivcrsity is anything but... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...their unpowdered ringleader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed.'' Southoy could, perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession.... | |
 | 1851 - 640 pages
...their unpowdered ring-leader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Southey could , perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 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 schoolboy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life I am tempted to... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pages
...he arrived at Oxford before the age of fifteen complete, with a stock of erudition, which he says, might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which, he ingenuously confesses, a schoolboy would have been ashamed. Being entered a gentleman-commoner of... | |
 | 1857 - 456 pages
...intellectual condition at that time is curious enough : " I arrived there with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy might have been ashamed." It was natural. He had read extensively, though at random ; and,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 pages
...to the difficult originals. In 1752 he went to Oxford, and arrived " with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed." Neglected by his tutor, he gave himself to general reading. He... | |
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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. 
