...geographical works; and the consequence was, that he 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 college idly and unprofitably, according...

...through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erudition that eath, as school-boy would have been ashamed. He had no ambition ; his father was dead, and he actually thought...

...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...

...was 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...

...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...

...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...

...often does Oxford find such a freshman as it found in this Putney convalescent. He was possessed of a " stock of erudition which might have puzzled a...ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed." Such was the quantity of his scholarship, and such the nature of his ignorance, he tells us, when he...

...Oxford before he had completed his fifteenth year, and arrived there "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first university is anything but creditable...

...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...

...subsided by degrees in the historic line.' He arrived at Oxford, he says, 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. He spent fourteen months at college idly and unprolitably. as he himself slates;...