 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies ; but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind. His belief of revelation was unshaken...books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pages
...gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of revelation was unshaken...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 was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of revelation was unshaken...then pious. ' His studies had been so various, that 1 am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he... | |
 | 1885 - 858 pages
...; his belief of revelation was un.sh.iken ; his learning preserved his principles ; lie grew ñrst regular and then pious. His studies had been so various,...name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with bonks was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies ; but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind. His belief of revelation was unshaken...books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 pages
...gay world without exemption from its rices or its follies ; but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind. His belief of revelation was unshaken...books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies ; but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind. His belief of revelation was unshaken...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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken...was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 pages
...gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken...books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness... | |
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His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. 
