 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...preserved 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 - 1895 - 660 pages
...preserved 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 - 1896 - 446 pages
...pious. " His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. Ills 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 of communication,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1898 - 448 pages
...regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a man of crjual knowledge. 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 of communication,... | |
 | A. B. Clifton - Cathedrals - 1898 - 156 pages
...celebrated sentence about David Garrick so often quoted. Speaking of Gilbert Walmesley, he says that he is "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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. "His studies had been so various, that I am curacy, wish he would consider the dates, which I...own mind. " Mr Thrale goes to Brighthelmstone about least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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. Sucb was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...indigence do not force me into any criminal act." — Johnson, quoted by Boswell. 5 32. Walmesley. " 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." — Johnson, quoted by Boswell. 6 13. Politian. Another of "the great restorers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...indigence do not force me into any criminal act." — Johnson, quoted by Boswell. 5 32. Walmesley. " 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." — Johnson, quoted by Boswell. 6 13. Politian. Another of "the great restorers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...indigence do not force me into any criminal act." — Johnson, quoted by Boswell. 6 32. Walmesley. " 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." — Johnson, quoted by Boswell. 6 13. Politian. Another of " the great... | |
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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. 
