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" Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. "
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 18
by James Boswell - 1807 - 460 pages
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

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,...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

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,...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

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,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ...

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...
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The Evidences of Christianity, in Their External Division: Exhibited in a ...

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...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

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...
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The Evidence and Authority of Divine Revelation: Being a View of ..., Volume 2

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...
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A practical treatise on the ordinary operations of the Holy Spirit

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,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

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...
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A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...

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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