 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 brilliancy of wit ;...  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765 - Stran 425avtor: James Boswell - 1887Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 strani
...I am, my dear friend, your most faithful friend and humble servant.' " " Arbuthnot," Johnson says, "was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his...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 - 1872 - 660 strani
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 strani
...faithful friend and humble servant.' " "Arbuthnot," Johoson says, ''was .a man of great compreheusion, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences,...able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and aetive imagination ; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the erowd of life, retained... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1875 - 630 strani
...wit than we all have, and more humanity than wit." "Arbuthnot," says Dr. Johnson in his life of Pope, "was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his...the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardourof religious zeal." Lord Orrery has thus entered more minutely into his character: "Although... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 646 strani
...Encyclopœdia Britannica, note to p. 242, and also note BBB, p. 285. " 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 ardor of religious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1878 - 504 strani
...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...retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the publick. He vindicates himself from censures ; and with... | |
 | Royal College of Physicians of London - 1878 - 494 strani
...first among the eminent writers in queen Anne's reign, and the great lexicographer describes him as " a man of great comprehension : skilful in his profession,...animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination—a scholar with great brilliance of wit—a wit, who in the crowd of life retained and... | |
 | William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - 1878 - 458 strani
...first among the eminent writers in queen Anne's reign, and the great lexicographer describes him as " a man of great comprehension : skilful in his profession,...animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination—a scholar witli great brilliance of wit—a wit, who in the crowd of life retained and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 strani
...for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a. man of great his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted...knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar of great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 strani
...Rains but it Pours. Johnson says of him : " Arbuthnot was n man of great comprehension, skilful ill his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted...able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and a. tivo imagination; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit who in the crowd of life retained... | |
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