 ... sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest common sense of any person I ever knew, I should select the Duke of Queensberry. Unfortunately,...  Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time - Seite 176von Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1836 - 456 Seiten
...sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest...derived from the knowledge that he supposed me to posses of history ;— a question which it was not easy for me satisfactorily to answer, either to... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 440 Seiten
...sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest...most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with a favourable idea of his own species. Information as acquired by books, he always treated with contempt... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1845 - 444 Seiten
...sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest...favourable ideas of! his own species. Information as ao- ! quired from books, he always treated j with contempt ; and used to ask me, what advantage, or... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1845 - 440 Seiten
...sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest...nor the best adapted to impress him with favourable idea« of his own species. Information as acquired from books, he always treated with contempt ; and... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 Seiten
...strong, sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the individual who had received from nature the keenest...most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with a favourable idea of his own species. Information as acquired by books, he always treated with contempt;... | |
 | Richard Crisp - 1866 - 484 Seiten
...received from nature the keenest common sense I ever knew, I should select the Duke of Queensbury. Unfortunately, his sources of information, the turf,...most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with a favourable idea of his own species. Information, as acquired by books, he always treated with contempt,... | |
 | 1884 - 864 Seiten
...Queensberry, whose character is well delineated by Wraxall: — If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest...most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with favorable ideas of his own species. Information as acquired frum books he always treated with contempt... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 458 Seiten
...sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest...most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with a favourable idea of his own species. Information as acquired by books, he always treated with contempt... | |
 | 1907 - 832 Seiten
...Wraxall: "Unfortunately, his sources of information " — he is speaking of the Duke's good judgment, — "the turf, the drawing-room, the theatre, the great...most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with a favorable idea of his own species." That is really the nice way of putting these things. Not profligacy... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1906 - 554 Seiten
...Nathaniel Wraxall : Unfortunately, his sources of information [he is speaking of the Duke's good judgment], the turf, the drawing-room, the theatre, the great...most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with a favourable idea of his own species. That is really the nice way of putting these things. Not profligacy... | |
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