| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1838 - 692 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 digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of reflection that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 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 digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of" reflection... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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 digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of reflection that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 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 digestion, — by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of reflection... | |
| John Dryden - 1867 - 556 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 digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to • Preface to Ovid's Metamorphoses,— Dr. J. pass... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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 digestion; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of reflection that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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 digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of reflection that... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...from accidental intelligence and vatious conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, ppincott company digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of reflection that... | |
| English dictation - 1881 - 156 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 digestion ; by vigilance that permitted nothing to pass without notice, and a habit of reflection that... | |
| 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... | |
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