 | 1840 - 772 pages
...as a gentleman commoner to Magdalen College, Oxford ; taking with him " a stock of erudition, which might have puzzled a doctor, and a " degree of ignorance of which a school-hoy would have heen ashamed." We fear it must he admitted that he found the University in an... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at " Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 298 pages
...to demonstrate this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. B3 " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Lord King, in his LIFE OF LOCKE, remarks ; " That Locke regretted... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pages
...farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Lord King, in his LIFE OF LOCKE, remarks; " That Locke regretted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...historical and geographical works ; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, ' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...historical and geographical works; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, 'with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schuol-buy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...historical and geographical works; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, 'with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pages
...historical and geographical works ; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, ' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
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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. 
