 | Mark Pattison - 1885 - 352 էջ
...learning than it was in character and deportment. Gibbon says of himself that he "arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." I at eighteen had nothing to compare with the historical reading which Gibbon could show at fifteen.... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 էջ
...was sent to Oxford, with — as he says himself in his short autobiography — " a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He astonished the fellows and students there : " a thin little figure, with a large head, disputing... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 էջ
...directions, and so defective in others, that he went there, he tells us himself, "with a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He was very fond of disputation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 էջ
...was entered at Edward Gibbon. 271 Magdalen College, Oxford, he possessed "a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance...of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." In other words, his miscellaneous and historical knowledge was great : his acquaintance with Latin more... | |
 | 1909 - 1034 էջ
...matriculated at Magdalen College, giving this account of his preparation: ''I arrived at Oxford," he said, '' with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no benefit.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 էջ
...difficulty of reconciling the S'ptuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a »lock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 էջ
...directions, and so defective in others, that lie went there, he tells us himself, "with a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He was very fond of dis-putation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 494 էջ
...directions, and so defective in others, that he went there, he tells us himself, "with a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He was very fond of disputation while at Oxford; and the Dons of the University were astonished to... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1889 - 636 էջ
...Edward Gibbon. ', •?. . . 271 Magdalen College, Oxford, he possessed "a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy wouldi hare been ashamed." In other words, his miscellaneous and historical knowledge was great : his... | |
 | 1890 - 330 էջ
...attention to his studies. From Westminster he passed in 1752 to Oxford, where he arrived, he tells us, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The meaning of that is, that while too ill for regular study during his school-days, he had been devouring... | |
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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. 
