...life. Gibbon says, he left Oxford with an amount of learning which might have puzzled a doctor, aud a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. For my part, I can honestly say, that I imbibed there the morality as well as the philosophy of the...

...prevented him from obtaining much knowledge of Latin and Greek, his love of reading had led him to peruke many historical and geographical works; and he arrived...after leading a somewhat dissipated life for fourteen mouths, he was compelled to leave Oxford in consequence of having embraced the Roman Catholic faith....

...School, he commenced residence at Magdalene College, Oxford, he carried with him, as he himself says, " a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Hi,s impressions of Oxford were not favourable; and the picture which he draws of the inner life of the...

...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled...ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...course of his instruction ; but he had of his own accord read widely. " I arrived at Oxford," he says, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Such an irregular boyish career was a bad preparation for a university course : we must therefore make...

...course of his instruction; but he had of his own accord read widely. "I arrived at Oxford," he says, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Such an irregular boyish career was a bad preparation for a university course : we must therefore make...

...Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. "With such acquirements, " I arrived at Oxford," says he, " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." The transition to the University was well calculated to make a marked impression on a youth whose intellectual...

...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...

...with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor," but, also, on his own showing, with " a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Writing in middle life, he allows himself to observe that he had never consciously bought a book from...

...tutors, and, finally, entered Magdalen College, Oxford, " with an amount of erudition . . . that would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed," — remained at college ouly 14 months, continuing his wide and desultory reading, and, after a bout...