 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 Seiten
...I am, my dear friend, your most faithful friend and humble servant." " Arbuthnot," Johnson says, " was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession,...bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliance of wit ; a wit who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 Seiten
...by Arbuthnot; a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful...bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliance of wit ; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 Seiten
...I am, my dear friend, your most faithful friend and humble servant." " Arbuthnot," Johnson says, " was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession,...bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliance of wit ; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
 | Royal College of Physicians of London - 1861 - 474 Seiten
...learning, or for the most elevated social, moral, and religious virtues. " He was," says Dr. Johnson, " a man of great comprehension : skilful in his profession,...bright and active imagination — a scholar with great brilliance of wit — a wit who in the crowd of life retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
 | William Munk - 1861 - 458 Seiten
...learning, or for the most elevated social, moral, and religious virtues. '" He was," says Dr. Johnson, " a man of great comprehension : skilful in his profession,...bright and active imagination — a scholar with great brilliance of wit — a wit who in the crowd of. life retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 Seiten
...Arbuthnot, — a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful...the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, iiud able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 Seiten
...I am, my dear friend, your most faithful friend and humble servant.' ' Arbuthnot,' Johnson says, ' was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession,...bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliance of wit ; a wit who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 Seiten
...by Arbuthnot ; a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful...knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar wit h great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour... | |
 | Rees Howell Gronow - 1866 - 216 Seiten
...speaking of Hertford, that he was a man of great comprehension; not only versed in the sciences, but able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination. In a word, if he had lived in London, instead of frittering away his time in Paris, he would have no... | |
 | Rees Howell Gronow - 1866 - 224 Seiten
...speaking of Hertford, that he was a man of great comprehension ; not only versed in the sciences, but able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination. In a word, if he had lived in London, instead of frittering away his time in Paris, he would have no... | |
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Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit, a... 
