| William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...especially of historical and geographical works; and the consequence was, that he arrived at Oxford " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He spent fourteen months at college idly and unprofitably, according to his own account. His desultory... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...circulating library, and he read through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, ath ; and h } He had no ambition ; his father was dead, and he actually thought of apprenticing himself to a shoemaker... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...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... | |
| Education - 1878 - 1074 pages
...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... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1878 - 1070 pages
...disturbed by the difficulty of reconciling the Septuagint with the Hebrew computation. I arrived at Oxford At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite... | |
| sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 pages
...sent to Oxford when fifteen years of age "with a stock of erudition," to quote his own words, " which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." This was at a time when our Universities were passing through the most degraded... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...read through the catalogue, folios and all. At fourteen, he had, like Gibbon, a stock of erndition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. He had no ambition; his father was dead, and he actually thought of apprenticing himself to a shoemaker... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 pages
...tuition at home he was sent to Oxford before he had completed his fifteenth year, and arrived there "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first university is anything but creditable to the institution, in a moral... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...pledge of their loves.' At fifteen he was sent to Oxford, carrying there a stock of erudition that would have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. His reading was extensive, but desultory; and his education without direction or discipline. Hence, as... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 842 pages
...extensive reading and interrupted education having produced "a stock of erudition that might have puzzled n doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been, ashamed." Here he spent 14 idle months, the chief result of which was. that in his incursions into controversial... | |
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