 | David Addison Harsha - 1865 - 272 Seiten
...this eminent prelate: '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 fervent and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry ; with wonderful extent and variety... | |
 | 1879 - 592 Seiten
...degree of brutality and a tendency to savageness that can not easily be defended. Of Warburton he said : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 Seiten
...brutality and a tendency to savageness that cannot easily be det'ended.''§ Of Warburton he said :— " 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... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 Seiten
...envenomed shafts of the Poet. " 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 fervent and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 Seiten
...(Works, viii. 288):— 'About this time [1732] 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.' Cradock... | |
 | 1888 - 576 Seiten
...collected from detached passages. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 Seiten
...favourable to morals or 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 Seiten
...favourable to morals or 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 - 1899 - 236 Seiten
...to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appear- 20 ance 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... | |
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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. 
