 | 1830 - 336 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 Seiten
...this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Lord King, in his LIFE OF LOCKE, remarks; " That Locke regretted... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 298 Seiten
...this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. B3 " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Lord King, in his LIFE OF LOCKE, remarks ; " That Locke regretted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 Seiten
...geographical works ; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, ' 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.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
 | 1838 - 542 Seiten
...geographical works; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, '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.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 Seiten
...geographical works; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, 'with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schuol-buy would have been ashamed.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
 | 1838 - 542 Seiten
...geographical works ; and he arrived at Oxford, according to his own account, ' 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.' His imperfect education was not improved during his residence... | |
 | 1839 - 742 Seiten
...had from his childhood an insatiable thirst for reading. In his fifteenth year he " arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. "•)• At Magdalen College he was neglected by his tutors, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
