 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1839 - 466 pages
...six-and-twenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with College prizes, high character, and promise : he had come to see our...without end, looked out from the blooming young man. The last time I saw him was three months ago, in London. Friendliness still beamed in his eyes, but... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 464 pages
...six-and-twenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with College prizes, high character, and promise : he had come to see our...without end, looked out from the blooming young man. The last time I saw him was three months ago, in London. Friendliness still beamed in his eyes, but... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 372 pages
...six-aud-tweuty years ago, in his native town Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes, high character and promise ; he had come to see our...without end, looked out from the blooming young man." At eighteen years of age he was promoted to a more lucrative and responsible position — the rectorship... | |
 | George Wilson - Anatomists - 1852 - 336 pages
...CHILDHOOD— SCHOOL AKD STUDENT L1FX. " He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes, high character, a,ni promise : he had come to see our Schoolmaster, who had also been his. We beard of famed professors, of high matters classical, mathematical,— a whole wonderland of knowledge:... | |
 | Washington Wilks - Christian biography - 1854 - 308 pages
...native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes [he had taken the degree of ' AM'], high character and promise ; he had come to see our...without end, looked out from the blooming, young man.' At eighteen years of age, he was promoted to a more lucrative and responsible position — the rectorship... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...he was destined for the ministry in the church of Scotland. Irving's glowing and enthusiastic talk " of famed professors, of high matters, classical, mathematical — a whole wonderland of knowledge," must have been a keen stimulant to the youth of fourteen, who had been by his schoolmaster introduced,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 212 pages
...six-and-twenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes, high character, and promise : he had come to see our...sixteen years of age, Carlyle fourteen; and from that time till Irving's sad and premature death, the two were intimate and constant friends. It was not... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 pages
...six-and-twenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with College prizes, high character, and promise : he had come to see our...without end, looked out from the blooming young man." This was written in 1835, so that it carries us back to the summer of 1809, — Carlyle being then... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1862 - 448 pages
...time I saw Irving was in his native town of Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes, high character and promise : he had come to see our...without end looked out from the blooming young man." Another spectator of more prosaic vision declares him to have been " rather a showy young man " —... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1862 - 448 pages
...time I saw Irving was in his native town of Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes, high character and promise : he had come to see our...without end looked out from the blooming young man." Another spectator of more prosaic vision declares him to have been " rather a showy young man " —... | |
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The first time I saw Irving was six-and-twenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with College prizes, high character and promise; he had come to see our Schoolmaster, who had also been his. We heard of famed Professors,... 
