...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 the...

...Englishman—two highly important 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...

...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...

...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...

...fifteenth year of his age, he 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...

...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...

...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...

...this account of his preparation: ''I arrived at Oxford," he said, '' 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." He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford,...

...the house of Hanover.' Such was the atmosphere into which Gibbon was Hung at the age of fifteen, ' with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed,' and here he spent fourteen months — 'the most idle ami unprofitable...

...Westminster he passed in 1752 to Oxford, where he arrived, he tells us, " 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 meaning of that is, that while too ill for regular study during...