 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much, it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence ; yet I rather believe...was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of knowledge, and a powerful digestion7.' Unlike most other gleaners, whatever he gathers he scatters with a lavish hand. He is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much, it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence ; yet I rather believe that the knowledge of Dryden was 20 gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence : yet I rather believe...was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1910 - 518 pages
...own part. She had not time, she told Dr. Johnson." Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence : yet I rather believe...was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversations, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence: yet I rather believe...was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe...was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe...was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe...was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...possession of great stores of intellectual wealth. Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe...of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence j1nd various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen... | |
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Of him that knows much, it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and... 
