 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit" The effect of such a testimony, from such a quarter, was to put to silence, and it is to be hoped,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 610 pages
...respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit" The effect of such a testimony, from such a quarter, was to put to silence, and it is to be hoped,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." The effect of such a testimony, from such a quarter, was to put to silence, and it is to be hoped,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1184 pages
...published 4 with all formality) : " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will 1 [It may be supposed that it was somewhat like what Mrs. Piozzi relates that he said of an eminent... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 452 pages
...never read the New Testament with attention." His friend in scepticism, Adam Smith, considered him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." But since, in his estimation, female infidelity, when unknown, was nothing, one needs pretty positive... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...never read the New Testament with attention." His friend in scepticism, Adam Smith, considered him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." But since, in his estimation, female infidelity when unknown was nothing, one needs pretty positive... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - 534 pages
...Theory of Moral Sentiments, declared that he had " always considered Mr Hume, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit" ! Shall we then be dazzled with the splendour of the talents of such men, and join in the high... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1834 - 244 pages
...biographer considers, both in his lifetime, and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the ideli of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. (2.) Let us now view a Christian's anticipation of death. Watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...published 4 with all formality) : " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime reat value, thinking it clinracteristical of a man...Dr. Johnson said, it was poor stuff, such as Lord 3 [It may be supposed that it was somewhat like what Mrs. Piozzi relates that he said of an eminent... | |
 | William Wilberforce - 1835 - 434 pages
...he had always considered him, both in his life-time and since his death, as approaching- as neatly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit ?"f Can there then be a doubt whither tends the path in which we are traveling, and whither at length... | |
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