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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 cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ... - Page 47
edited by - 1880
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1894 - 664 pages
...may be remembered that Gibbon, when he entered at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), arrived there " with a stock of erudition that might...puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which з schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bnlwer, I wonder, this passage in his memory when he wrote...
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Critical and miscellaneous essays, by an octogenarian (J. Roche).

James Roche - 1850 - 572 pages
...possess or enjoy the insolence of health; no very correct phrase, by the way; for how could he enjoy what he never possessed ? After some irregular tuition...been ashamed." His description of England's first I'nivcrsity is anything but creditable to the institution, in a moral or instructive sense; and in...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 23

American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...example of their unpowdered ringleader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " 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.'' Southoy could, perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession. Westminster...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 31

Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...example of their unpowdered ring-leader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " 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." Southey could , perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession. Westminster...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...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...
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Lives of Men of Letters of the Time of George III.

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 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...
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New Biographies of Illustrious Men

Biography - 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, his memory...
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The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General ..., Volume 8

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 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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The new American cyclopędia, ed. by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana, Volume 8

American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 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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A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, while too ill for study during his school-days,...
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