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" ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose... "
The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Página 468
por James Boswell - 1807
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Oxford, Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes

Andrew Lang - 1890 - 330 páginas
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." The signs of the times grew darker. In 1636 the King and Queen visited Oxford,...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volumen270

1891 - 660 páginas
...dwelt with him, as in a. college situated in a purer air ; that his house was a university bound in a less volume ; whither they came, not so much for repose as study, anil to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar...
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Historical Readings for the Use of Teachers' Reading Circles

Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 páginas
...and dwelt with him as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. . . . 5 He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volumen2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 páginas
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother (who was a lady...
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English Prose: Selections, Volumen2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 páginas
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his . mother (who was a...
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Oxford and Her Colleges: A View from the Radcliffe Library

Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 118 páginas
...a purer air, so that his was a University bound in a less volume, whither his intellectual friends came not so much for repose as study, and to examine...laziness and consent made current in conversation." This indicates that, while study was going on, liberal inquiry was also on foot. But clouds again gathered,...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 504 páginas
...dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university bound in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. The great opinion he had of the uprightness and integrity of those persons who...
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Two Notebooks of Thomas Carlyle: From 23d March, 1822, to 16th May, 1832

Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 348 páginas
...to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity & integrity of life." Men came to him by his commerce " to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." — Beautiful delineation of his character (p. 277) : a finer person, as here...
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Society and Solitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 330 páginas
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the state or the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a ..., Volumen3

James Boswell - 1900 - 556 páginas
...so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination. — His acquaintance was cultivated by the most polite and accurate men, so that his house was a University in less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study, and to examine and...
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