| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 842 pages
...extensive reading and interrupted education having produced "a stock of erudition that might have puzzled n doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been, ashamed." Here he spent 14 idle months, the chief result of which was. that in his incursions into controversial... | |
| Peter Anton - Agriculture - 1880 - 268 pages
...freshman as it found in this Putney convalescent. He was possessed of a " stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed." Such was the quantity of his scholarship, and such the nature... | |
| Scotland - 1881 - 842 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." The reader will find in the life of Buckle almost an exact reproduction of this precocious, presumptuous... | |
| William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...historical works ; and when he went to Oxford at the age of fifteen, he possessed " a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." At Oxford he had resided but fourteen months, when meeting in the course of his multifarious reading... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...indiscriminate appetite for books ' subsided by degrees in the historic line.' He arrived at Oxford, he says, 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. He spent fourteen months at college idly and unprolitably. as he... | |
| Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...factors in his intellectual growth. He says that he went up to Oxford with a " stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Both erudition and ignorance were left pretty well undisturbed during his... | |
| Mark Pattison - College presidents - 1885 - 352 pages
...learning than it was in character and deportment. Gibbon says of himself that he "arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." I at eighteen had nothing to compare with the historical reading which Gibbon could show at fifteen.... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...was sent to Oxford, with — as he says himself in his short autobiography — " a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He astonished the fellows and students there : " a thin little figure, with a large head, disputing... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1886 - 428 pages
...directions, and so defective in others, that he went there, he tells us himself, "with a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He was very fond of disputation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...was entered at Edward Gibbon. 271 Magdalen College, Oxford, he possessed "a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." In other words, his miscellaneous and historical knowledge was great : his acquaintance with Latin... | |
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