...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 attempted to enter a protest against the trite...

...day-dreamer" , as he describes himself, and such was Coleridge to the end of his life. At fourteen he had a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed. From that school he removed to Jesus College, Cambridge; but he never took his degree, leaving the...

...called the " singular and desperate measure " of carrying him to Oxford. He arrived at the University " with a Stock of Erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a Schoolboy would have been ashamed." We have no intention of repeating the hard things which in later years he had to say of his short undergraduate...

...sorrow." Leaving Westminster in 1750, he spent some three years in desultory reading, arriving at Oxford " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." " The dynasties of Egypt and Assyria," he explains, had been his top and cricket ball. He spent fourteen...

...that he entered Magdalen College, Oxford, " before I had accomplished the fifteenth year of my age," " with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a Doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school boy might have been ashamed."2 From all this it is clear 1 Bngenia (1752) : Constaniine (1754)....

...his celebrated words, though for that matter almost every word in the Autobiography is celebrated, with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed — for example, he did not know the Greek alphabet, nor is there any reason to suppose that he would...

...conversion to Catholicism, and the rebound to free thought. We know little save that he went to Oxford "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed." A nature throwing itself violently into different creeds is drawn in the Autobiography of Annie Besant....

...matriculated at Magdalen College, giving this account of his preparation. "I arrived at Oxford," he said, "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled...ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." 2 He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no...

...College and his University: — I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition which might have puzzled я doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and slie will as cheerfully renounce me for...

...themselves. "I arrived at Oxford," says Gibbon, "with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled я doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." But such ignorance as is here confessed did not suffice to deprive the world of the Decline and Fall....