...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,...

...morally the most worthless of my life. Gibbon says, he left Oxford with an amount of learning which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. For my part, I can honestly say, that I imbibed there the morality as well as the philosophy of the...

...life. Gibbon says, he left Oxford with an amount of learning which might have puzzled a doctor, aud a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. For my part, I can honestly say, that I imbibed there the morality as well as the philosophy of the...

...peruke many historical and geographical works; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...which a school-boy would have been ashamed.'' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence at Oxford ; his tutors he describes as easy...

...School, he commenced residence at Magdalene College, Oxford, he carried with him, as he himself says, " a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Hi,s impressions of Oxford were not favourable; and the picture which he draws of the inner life of the...

...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 school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...course of his instruction; but he had of his own accord read widely. "I arrived at Oxford," he says, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Such an irregular boyish career was a bad preparation for a university course : we must therefore make...

...course of his instruction ; but he had of his own accord read widely. " I arrived at Oxford," he says, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Such an irregular boyish career was a bad preparation for a university course : we must therefore make...

...Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. "With such acquirements, " I arrived at Oxford," says he, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The transition to the University was well calculated to make a marked impression on a youth whose intellectual...

...with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor," but, also, on his own showing, with " a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Writing in middle life, he allows himself to observe that he had never consciously bought a book from...