...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 з schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bnlwer, I wonder, this passage in his memory when he wrote...

...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 school-boy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first I'nivcrsity is anything but...

...ring-leader. Gibbon has recorded 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 might have been ashamed." Southey could , perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession....

...ringleader. Gibbon has recorded 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 might have been ashamed.'' Southoy could, perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession....

...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. At the conclusion of this first period of my life I am tempted to...

...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...

...1752. His description of his intellectual condition at that time is curious enough : " I arrived there with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy might have been ashamed." It was natural. He had read extensively, though at random ; and,...

...watched over him with unceasing care. At the age of seven a domestic tutor, John Kirkby, taught him the elements of Latin. In his 9th year, during "a...research, and bought the Bibliothèque orientale of D'Herbelot with his враге money. He began his history of the " Age of Sesostris," which he at....

...to have gained new activity. He now read assiduously, chiefly upon historical subjects; as yet lie knew very little Latin or Greek, and preferred translations...was then fond of oriental research, and bought the Bibliotheque orientate of D'Herbelot. with his spare money. He began his history of the "Age of Sesostris,"...

...Oxford, — arriving at that seat of learning, as he tells us himself, " 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." The key to this statement we find in the fact, that, while too...