 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His aquaintance 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 of communication,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 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 - 1889 - 574 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,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 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,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 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 - English literature - 1890 - 568 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,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 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 - English fiction - 1891 - 286 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...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 of communication,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 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,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 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,... | |
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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. 
