...Boswell, followed much the same plan ; and Gibbon says in his autobiography, ' I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." We always think Rabelais' abbey of Thelcmc (see No. 7, p. 512), with its one clause, 'fay ce que couldras,'...

...miscellaneous 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. The tutors...

...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...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 to enter...

...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...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 to enter a...

...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...

...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...

...remembered that Gibbon, when he entered at Magdalen College, Oxford (to use his own words), arrived there " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." Had Bulwer, I wonder, this passage in bis memory when he wrote of Christopher Clutterbuck : — ' My...

...remembered that Gibbon, when he entered 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...

...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 school-boy would have been ashamed." His description of England's first I'nivcrsity is anything but creditable to the institution, in a moral...

...example of their unpowdered ring-leader. Gibbon has recorded of himself that he " arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might have been ashamed." Southey could , perhaps, have subscribed to a similar confession. Westminster...