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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 Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge - Página 212
1838
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 páginas
...difficulty of 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...
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Annual Register, Volumen38

Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 páginas
...difficulty of 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...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volumen111

1860 - 566 páginas
...exquisitely alive to the melodies of his native tongue. Gibbon describes himself as taking with him to Oxford 'a ' stock of erudition that might have puzzled a...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ' ashamed.' Milton probably had nothing to be ashamed of on the one score, and much to boast of on the other, when...
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General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most ..., Volumen4

John Aikin - 1803 - 770 páginas
...philological studies usual in a literary progress at that period of life. " 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." In this state it is evident that he was ill prepared to receive the benefits, whatever they may be,...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volumen4

John Aikin - 1803 - 646 páginas
...philological studies usual in a literary progress at that period of life. " I arrived at Oxford," says he, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...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 the benefits, whatever...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen8

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...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...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volumen38

1807 - 772 páginas
...Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived a' Oxford with a stock of erudition that might ha\re puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no o'iliçations ; ana she wiil as cheerfully renounce me...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 páginas
...extensive as that of some others at the same period of life. He says of himself: I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. Under such circumstances, he was but ill prepared to receive the benefits of an university education,...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1813 - 532 páginas
...matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College. To Oxford, he informs us, he brought " a ftock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a fchool-boy would have been afhamed." During the three laft years, although ficknefs interrupted a regular...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 páginas
...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...
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