 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.  Works of Henry Lord Brougham ... - Stran 383avtor: Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 strani
...through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erudition that eath, as a school-boy would have been ashamed. He had no ambition ; his father was dead, and he actually thought... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 strani
...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1068 strani
...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... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 strani
...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... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 strani
...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... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 strani
...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... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 strani
...freshman as it found in this Putney convalescent. He was possessed of a " stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed." Such was the quantity of his scholarship, and such the nature... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 strani
...works ; and when he went to Oxford at the age of fifteen, he possessed " a stock of knowledge that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." At Oxford he had resided but fourteen months, when meeting in... | |
 | 1883 - 836 strani
...factors in his intellectual growth. He says that he went up to Oxford with a " stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Both erudition and ignorance were left pretty well undisturbed... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1885 - 352 strani
...character and deportment. Gibbon says of himself 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." I at eighteen had nothing to compare with the historical reading... | |
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