 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...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 - 1801 - 536 pages
...his principles ; he grew firft regular, and then pious. His ftudies had been fo various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance...and what he did not immediately know, he could at leaft tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and fuch his copioufnefs of communication,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...principles ; he grew firft regular, and then pious. His ftudtes had been fo various, that I am hot able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance...and what he did not immediately know, he could at leaft tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, • and fuch his copioufnefs of communication,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 with books was great ; and what hedid not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 428 pages
...preferved his principles; he'grew firft regular, and then pious. His ftudies had been fo various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance...and what he did not immediately know, he could at leaft tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and fuch his copioufnefs of communication,... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1806 - 274 pages
...not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. " His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance...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,... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - Medicine - 1806 - 578 pages
...applied, what Johnson says of his friend Gilbert Walmsley ; " His studies " had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal " knowledge. His acquaintance...and what " he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find." What Johnson likewise says of his obligations to Walmsley, I may, with equal... | |
 | Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - College teachers - 1807 - 572 pages
...applied, what Johnson says of his friend Gilbert Walmsley ; " His studies " had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal " knowledge. His acquaintance...and what " he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find." What Johnson likewise says of his obligations to Walmsley, I may, with equal... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 356 pages
...applied, what Johnson says of his friend Gilbert Walmsley ; " His studies had been " so various, that I am not able to name a man " of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with " books was great ; and what he did not imme" diately know, he could at least tell where to " find." What Johnson likewise says of his obligations... | |
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His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. 
