 | Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...cotemporary literary character, of at least equal powers to the transcendant abilities of Warburton. «' He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid...had not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicuity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, with a fancy fertile ot original combinations,... | |
 | William Magee - Atonement - 1813 - 556 pages
...scholar and divine, as it is pourtray. ed by the hand of a master, I here willingly subjoin. — " He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid...had not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicuity. To every work he brought a memory Full fraught, with a fancy fertile of original combinations,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...of W.irburton is summed up by Dr. Johnson. " He was," as he observes, " a man of vigorou* laculiies, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant...inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...scriplurq prophecies. T'ic character of Warburlon is summed up by Or- Johnson. " He was," as he observes, " a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by inoessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and \jriety of knowledge. To every work he brought... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...pen of Dr. Johnson, certainly not in the spirit of panegyric, but yet with apparent impartiality. " 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 yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...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 yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...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...imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work lie brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations ; and at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...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 yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...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 yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...?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 had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
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