 | 1851 - 640 páginas
...example of their unpowdered ring-leader. 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." Southey could , perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession. Westminster... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 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 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 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... | |
 | 1857 - 456 páginas
...intellectual condition at that time is curious enough : " I arrived there with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy might have been ashamed." It was natural. He had read extensively, though at random ; and, his memory... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 páginas
...to the difficult originals. In 1752 he went to Oxford, and arrived " with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed." Neglected by his tutor, he gave himself to general reading. He... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 páginas
...with the Rev. Philip Francis, the translator of Horace, he was removed, in 1752, to Oxford, where he matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College,...he describes as easy men, who preferred receiving their fees to attending to the instruction of their pupils; and after leading a somewhat dissipated... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 páginas
...to the difficult originals. In 1752 he went to Oxford, and arrived " with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed." Neglected by his tutor, he gave himself to general reading. He... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, while too ill for study during his school-days,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, while too ill for study during his school-days,... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1866 - 588 páginas
...morally the most worthless of my life. Gibbon says, he left Oxford with an amount of learning which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. For my part, I can honestly say, that I imbibed there the morality as well as the philosophy of the... | |
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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. 
