| 1845 - 916 páginas
...Boswell, followed much the same plan ; and Gibbon says in his autobiography, ' I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." We always think Rabelais' abbey of Thelcmc (see No. 7, p. 512), with its one clause, 'fay ce que couldras,'... | |
| People - 1845 - 348 páginas
...miscellaneous information, so that to use his own expressions, "he arrived at college with a stock of ignorance that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." His habits of easy indolence were not improved at the university. The tutors... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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...doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed. At. the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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...doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 páginas
...he arrived at Oxford before the age of fifteen complete, with a stock of erudition, which, he says, might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which, he ingenuously confesses, a schoolboy would have been ashamed. Being entered a gentleman-commoner of... | |
| Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 páginas
...he arrived at Oxford before the age of fifteen complete, with a stock of erudition, which, he says, might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which, he ingenuously confesses, a schoolboy would have been ashamed. Being entered a gentleman-commoner of... | |
| 1894 - 664 páginas
...remembered that Gibbon, when he entered at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), arrived there " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bulwer, I wonder, this passage in bis memory when he wrote of Christopher Clutterbuck : — ' My... | |
| 1894 - 664 páginas
...remembered that Gibbon, when he entered at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), arrived there " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which з schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bnlwer, I wonder, this passage in his memory when he wrote... | |
| James Roche - 1850 - 572 páginas
...tuition at home, he was sent to Oxford before he had completed his fifteenth year, and arrived there "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first I'nivcrsity is anything but creditable to the institution, in a moral... | |
| 1851 - 608 páginas
...example of their unpowdered ringleader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed.'' Southoy could, perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession. Westminster... | |
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