...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed. 25 At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted...

...knave's advice. 5. If he cannot conquer he may properly retreat. 6. 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. 7. From the hall door she could look down the park. 8. Early activity...

...knave's advice. 5. If he cannot conquer he may properly retreat. 6. 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. 7. From the hall door she could look down the park. 8. Early activity...

...prodigies, and Gibbon was prodigious in the cradle. " I arrived at Oxford," he confessed, "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." We admit the erudition, we refuse to believe in the ignorance ;...

...celebrated words, though for that matter almost every word in the Autobiography is celebrated, with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed—for example, he did not know the Greek alphabet, nor is there any...

...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed.' He spent fourteen months at Magdalen College, Oxford, months '...

...1752] before I had accomplished the fifteenth year of my age. ... 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. . . . My apartments [in Magdalen] consisted of three elegant and...

...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." The reader will find in the life of Buckle almost an exact reproduction...

...singular and desperate measure " of carrying him to Oxford. He arrived at the University " with a Stock of Erudition that might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a Schoolboy would have been ashamed." We have no intention of repeating the hard things which in later...

...Magdalen College, Oxford, " before I had accomplished the fifteenth year of my age," " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed."2 From all this it is clear 1 Bngenia (1752) : Constaniine (1754)....