 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a flock of erudition , that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a fchool-boy would have been afhamed. At the conclufion of this firfl period of my life, I am tempted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 786 pages
...reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a ftock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a fchool-boy would have been afhamed. To the univerfity of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation; and (lie... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1803 - 646 pages
...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 bave been ashamed." In th:s state it is evident that he was ill prepared to receive... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pages
...age of fifteen he was sent as a gentleman commoner to Magdalen College, Oxford ; taking with him " a stock of erudition, which might have puzzled a doctor, and a " degree of ignorance of which a school-hoy would have heen ashamed." We fear it must he admitted that he found the University in an... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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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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. 
