| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 páginas
...Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles : he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a 75 man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately... | |
| Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 538 páginas
...loved to linger over associations with Lichfield added of this first of the true ' Lichfieldians,' " His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of information, that... | |
| Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 542 páginas
...loved to linger over associations with Lichfield added of this first of the true ' Lichfieldians,' " His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of information, that... | |
| James Boswell - 1907 - 712 páginas
...revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various, that I am not able...where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, andt Aich his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes, in which... | |
| James Boswell - 1910 - 602 páginas
...revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His aquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where... | |
| Sir Edmund Gosse - 1916 - 438 páginas
...Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various that I am not able...name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with hooks was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such... | |
| Robert William Chapman - 1920 - 166 páginas
.... Page 109 Johnson in Scotland . . . Page 127 Silver Spoons .... Page 140 The PORTRAIT of a SCHOLAR His studies had been so various, that I am not able...immediately know, he could, at least, tell -where to Jind. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 páginas
...revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. * He died Aug. 3, 1751, aged 71 ; and a monument to his memory has been erected in the cathedral of... | |
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