 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...Aug. 3, 1751, aged 71; and a monument to his memory has been erected in the cathedral of Lichfield. His acquaintance with books was great ; 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 ef intelligence,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 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,... | |
 | Richard Polwhele - 1816 - 746 pages
...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 where to find." Such was precisely the case with his namesake the rector of Falmouth.^ I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...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 pages
...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 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 - 1820 - 430 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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 416 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 - 1820 - 442 pages
...his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pions. " His studies had been so varions, 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 wi.ere to find. Such WHS his amplitude of learning, and such his copionsness of communication,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 426 pages
...hia 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,... | |
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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. 
