 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 490 Seiten
...remarkable to be omitted. " About this time (1738), Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1819 - 398 Seiten
...literary labours, which will be an ornament to the English language and nation as long as they exist.* " He was a man of vigorous faculties ; a mind fervid and vehement, supplied, by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and .variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 Seiten
...favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 Seiten
...favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time War burton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 Seiten
...detached passages. ?x •Sj,"!0 About thin time Warburton began to Make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enqmry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 Seiten
...favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | 1825 - 594 Seiten
...which Johnson bestowed on Warburton — probably the greatest reader of his age — when he said* — " He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful estent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 Seiten
...morals or to liberty. . ;.,. i . About this time Wai burton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
 | 1826 - 434 Seiten
...favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which... | |
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He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. 
