| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1849 - 584 Seiten
...dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university bound in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. 331 Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother (who was... | |
| James Boswell - 1851 - 322 Seiten
...ratiocination. His acquaintance was cultivated by the most polite and accurate men, so that his honse was an university in less volume, whither they came,...laziness and consent made current in conversation." pressed his thoughts with great force, and an elegant choice of language, the effect of which was aided... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1852 - 412 Seiten
...in apurer air: so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much to repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and content made current in vulgar conversation. . . He was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine tiio.se grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation * * *... | |
| 1870 - 786 Seiten
...frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in purer air ; so that his house was a university in less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study." It is a comfort to think that fate still makes ample provision for the suburbs of university towns,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation * He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 Seiten
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose...refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs.... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 Seiten
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the state or the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 Seiten
...situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came riot so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation * * * He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1860 - 294 Seiten
...so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as for study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." — Clarendon, b. vii. The ch., which has a beautiful fringed door of late Norm.,... | |
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