 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1892 - 458 pages
...accomplished the fifteenth year of my age (April 3, 1752) .. . . ' I arrived at P. 3 1. 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. . . . A traveller, who visits Oxford or Cambridge, is surprised... | |
 | Oliver Throck Morton - 1892 - 236 pages
...its geniuses, as we have seen. Gibbon went to Magdalen College " with a stock of information which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy might be ashamed." The fourteen months which he spent there were, he said, the most idle... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 pages
...studied at Oxford. Of his attainments, he tells us that he possessed "a stock of erudition that would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school -boy would have been ashamed." This means that on account of ill - health he had studied irregularly,... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pages
...the care of an aunt ; and was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford, at the age of fifteen, with " a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." There he spent fourteen months — the most idle and unprofitable,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 66 pages
...on 3rd April, 1752. The pages exhibited describe his life at Oxford, where he arrived ' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a Doctor and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed,' and where he found the fellows of his college ' immersed in Port... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 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... | |
 | 1896 - 300 pages
...had acquired. He went to Oxford when he was a little past sixteen, "arriving," he says, "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." The lives of some literary men furnish remarkable illustrations... | |
 | 1897 - 872 pages
...prepared for this crisis; his extensive reading and interrupted education having produced ' a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. Here he spent 14 idle months, the chief result of which was, that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 614 pages
...Albupharagius.' Such a course of reading will justify the well-known sentence, ' 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.' ' But thou, Oxford, — not street, but University ! ' — we... | |
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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. 
