 | 1909 - 1034 pages
...matriculated at Magdalen College, giving this account of his preparation: ''I arrived at Oxford," he said, '' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no benefit.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1887 - 1040 pages
...difficulty of reconciling the S'ptuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a »lock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and...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... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 494 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... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...directions, and so defective in others, that lie 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 dis-putation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1889 - 636 pages
...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 wouldi hare been ashamed." In other words, his miscellaneous and historical knowledge was great : his... | |
 | Authors, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...attention to his studies. From Westminster he passed in 1752 to Oxford, where he arrived, he tells us, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The meaning of that is, that while too ill for regular study during his school-days, he had been devouring... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...through the catalogue, folios and all. " At fourteen," says his biographer, " he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." A fatherless boy, and — as he himself tells us — " without a spark of ambition," he had seriously... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1890 - 560 pages
...nf^Tag- _ dalen College.. Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy w£uld.have "been ashamed." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, wliile too ill for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 848 pages
...the atmosphere into which Gibbon was Hung at the age of fifteen, ' with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed,' and here he spent fourteen months — 'the most idle ami unprofitable of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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 school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I attempted to enter a protest against the trite... | |
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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. 
