| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 páginas
...learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal...and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 páginas
...learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance Tvith books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...learning preserved his principles; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. * He died Aug. 3, 1751, aged 71; and a monument to his memory has been erected in the cathedral of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 páginas
...learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal...and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 páginas
...learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal...and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
| Richard Polwhele - 1816 - 746 páginas
...Smith. "He was of an advanced age" (says Johnson) " and I was only not a boy. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowlege. His acquaintance with books was great : and what he did not immediately know, he could tell... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...first regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a mau of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was...and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such WHS his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
| John Britton - 1817 - 392 páginas
...Walmsley, who was registrar of this See, Dr. Johnson observes, in his Life of Edmund Smith, that he was " not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal...and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 páginas
...learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal...and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
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