 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1876 - 836 pages
...LORD BoLi.fo BROKE: Essay on the Study o/ffistory: BolingbroMi 1754. 5 vols. 4lo, ii. Kill. " He was H man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry wirli wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had nut oppressed his imagination nor clouded... | |
 | Booksellers' catalogs - 1878 - 486 pages
...with Remarks on his Works, by i. S. Watson, 8vo. cloth, nmi. 1863 (pub. 18s.) ... ... ... 8s. "Jfe 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.... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 pages
...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...extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not impressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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,... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...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...wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet hud not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicuity. To every work he brought a memory full... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 500 pages
...:— ' 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 (Memoirs, \. 188) says that ' Bishop... | |
 | Robert Edward Myhill Peach - Bath (England) - 1888 - 354 pages
...vigorous faculties ; a mind fervid and vehement, supplied, by the incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which...oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity." This is Warner's account. The Priory lands at the time of the Dissolution originally comprised the... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...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 yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 836 pages
...LORD Bo2672 : Essay on the Study of History : Bolingbrokc's Wort». 1754. 6 vole, n ... ii. 330. " He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid...vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry with wni.derful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed hi» Imagination nor clouded... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...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 yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
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VOL 10 — 17 257 clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and, at once, exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. 
