 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. — TEMPLE, WILLIAM, 1772, Letter to James Boswell, London Magazine, March. He was much admired for... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1911 - 446 páginas
...conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining; but he was also a good man, a well-bred man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : Though he seemed to value others, chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge ;... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have been equally instructing 10 and entertaining ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1863 - 614 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining. But tie was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Congreve. Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge,... | |
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There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. 
