 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 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 1 am tempted... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...through the catalogue, folios and nil. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erudition that X ,. ,. schoolboy would have been ashamed. He had no ambition ; his father was dead, and he actually thought... | |
 | 1845 - 916 Seiten
...same plan ; and Gibbon says in his autobiography, ' 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." We always think Rabelais' abbey of Thelcmc (see No. 7, p. 512),... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...information, so that to use his own expressions, "he arrived at college with a stock of ignorance that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." His habits of easy indolence were not improved at the university.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 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 schoolboy might have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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 schoolboy might have been ashamed. At. the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 Seiten
...he arrived at Oxford before the age of fifteen complete, with a stock of erudition, which, he says, might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which, he ingenuously confesses, a schoolboy would have been ashamed. Being entered a gentleman-commoner of... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 Seiten
...he arrived at Oxford before the age of fifteen complete, with a stock of erudition, which, he says, might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which, he ingenuously confesses, a schoolboy would have been ashamed. Being entered a gentleman-commoner of... | |
 | 1894 - 664 Seiten
...at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), 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." Had Bulwer, I wonder, this passage in bis memory when he wrote... | |
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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. 
