 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 стор.
...years in desultory reading, arriving 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." " The dynasties of Egypt and Assyria," he explains, had been his top and cricket ball. He spent fourteen... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1908 - 328 стор.
...every word in the Autobiography is celebrated, with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of 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... | |
 | Anna Robeson Brown Burr - 1909 - 472 стор.
...thought. We know little save that he went to Oxford "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." A nature throwing itself violently into different creeds is drawn in the Autobiography of Annie Besant.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 388 стор.
...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 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... | |
 | Karl Brown, Melvil Dewey, Frederick Leypoldt, Bertine Emma Weston, Helen E. Wessels - 1909 - 822 стор.
...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.... | |
 | 1909 - 860 стор.
...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... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1911 - 296 стор.
...3, 1752). ... I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and o a degree of ignorance, of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed. . . . A traveller, who visits Oxford or Cambridge, is surprised and edified by the apparent order and... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 482 стор.
...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." 4 He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 490 стор.
...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 schoolboy would have been ashamed." 4 He did not adapt himself to the life or the method of Oxford, and from them apparently derived no... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 стор.
...the Hebrew computation.* I arrived " at Oxford 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. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge " no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for... | |
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I arrived at Oxford 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. 
