...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...