| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...equally instructing and entertaining ; but he " was also a good man, a man of virtue and buma" nity. There is no character without some speck, " some imperfection..." in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effe" minacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt " and disdain of his inferiors in science.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...knowledge, lib conversation must have bit- a .equally instructing and entertaining ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and I thiuk the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and av bible... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have " been equally instructing and entertaining ; but*he " was also a good man, a man of virtue and huma"<nity. There is no character >without some speck, " some imperfsction ; and I think the,greatest defect " in his was an affectation in delicacy, <or rather... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 páginas
...have been equally instructing and entertaining; but he was also a good man, a well-bred man, a maa of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; ami I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have been equally instructive and entertaining ; bwt 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... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 páginas
...of'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...and disdain of his inferiors in science. He also had comparing it with the following passage of Hume, as quoted by Mr. D. Stewart in his Life of Reid, p.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation " must have been equally instructing and entertain" ing ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue " and humanity. There is no character..." some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the i',**' " greatest defect in his was an affectation in deliv ^V ," cacy, or rather effeminacy, and a... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminancy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain...weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress that they had made in knowledge,... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 páginas
...without some speck, some imperfection ; anj 1 think the greatest defect in his was an affecution of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness,...science. He also had, in some degree, that weakness which di<gu>tec Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : thoiigr. he seemed to value others chiefly according •-:•... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have been eqiiafiy instructing and entertaining ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and"! think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminancy, and a visible... | |
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