...especially of historical and geographical works; and the consequence was, that he arrived at Oxford " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He spent fourteen months at college idly and unprofitably, according to his own account. His desultory...

...circulating library, and he read through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, ath ; and h } He had no ambition ; his father was dead, and he actually thought of apprenticing himself to a shoemaker...

...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...

...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...

...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...sent to Oxford when fifteen years of age "with a stock of erudition," to quote his own words, " which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." This was at a time when our Universities were passing through the most degraded...

...read through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erndition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. He had no ambition; his father was dead, and he actually thought of apprenticing himself to a shoemaker...

...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first university is anything but creditable to the institution, in a moral...

...pledge of their loves.' At fifteen he was sent to Oxford, carrying there a stock of erudition that would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. His reading was extensive, but desultory; and his education without direction or discipline. Hence, as...

...extensive reading and interrupted education having produced "a stock of erudition that might have puzzled n doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been, ashamed." Here he spent 14 idle months, the chief result of which was. that in his incursions into controversial...