 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 542 pages
...talk from a desire of distinction, but because his mind is full." On another occasion he declared : " Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he haa in the world. Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." Again : " No man of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 pages
...perceiving any particular power of rair.i in them in conversation. ' It seems strange (said he,) that a mar. should see so far to the right, who sees so short...conversation corresponds with the general fame which he had in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you.'" " A gentleman, by... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1910 - 472 pages
...chair." Burke was one of the very few men whom Johnson ( regarded and treated as his equal. He said : " Burke is , ' the only man whose common conversation...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." Later in life Burke became so worried over the trend of public affairs that he could not talk calmly... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 pages
...without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.' Sometimes Dr. Johnson was a little grudging. He said of Burke on one occasion that he was not so agreeable... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 pages
...matter infinitely in your own mind.' ' His stream of mind is perpetual,' was Johnson's comment ; ' Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.' Burke owed his success in the House of Commons and its committees not more, perhaps, to his eloquence... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 pages
...the matter infinitely in your own mind." "His stream of mind is perpetual," was Johnson's comment; "Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." Burke owed his success in the House of Commons and its committees not more, perhaps, to his eloquence... | |
 | 1919 - 926 pages
...perpetual; and he does not talk from any desire of distinction, but because his mind is full. . . . Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." Froude says of Newman : " Newman's mind was world-wide. He was interested in everything which was going... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 454 pages
...that comprehensiveness which made Johnson say of nis conversation, 'his stream of mind is perpetual: take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you '. Passing from oratory to history and philosophy, we find Hume, a master of both kinds in David Hume... | |
 | A. J. Ayer - 1990 - 210 pages
...tribute of Johnson's, also quoted in Boswell's Life, is less equivocal. 'Burke is the only man whose conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you.' Burke made his first public attack on the French Revolution... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1908 - 406 pages
...the matter infinitely in your own mind.' 'His stream of mind is perpetual,' was Johnson's comment; ' Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.' Burke owed his success in the House of Commons and its committees not more, perhaps, to his eloquence... | |
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He used frequently to observe that men might be very eminent in a profession, without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so short a way... 
