...which the great English historian arrived at Oxford, " having with him a stock of erudition which would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." If he be unduly curbed on the other hand, the pernicious sophism...

...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 '...

...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 ;...

...my character might be so well described in Gibbon's words about himself: ' I went up with a degree of erudition, which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance which a schoolboy might have been ashamed of.' This it is that 'sickles o'er the native hue of resolution,'...

...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...

...neither give nor take away — the inborn ardour of scholarship. He says that he took with him to Oxford a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed. For this state of things the desultory character of his previous...

...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). that Francis and Gibbon...

...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...

...he spent some three years in desultory reading, arriving 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 dynasties of Egypt and Assyria," he explains, had been his...

...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...