 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 502 pages
...with books that were curious and scarce, especially in matters master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...but unpolished expression. ' He was a man,' as the l)uke of Buckingham called him tome, 'of a blundering understanding.." (Own Time, vol. ip 162.) relating... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 496 pages
...with books that were curious and scarce, especially in matters master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the historians, ancient aud modern ; so that he had great materials. He had, with these, an extraordinary memory, and a copious... | |
 | John Burke - Baronetage - 1831 - 656 pages
...was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a great master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the historians, ancient and modem, so that he had a great store of materials. He was a man (as the Duke of Buckingham called him)... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 134 pages
...court. He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...extraordinary memory, and a copious but unpolished expression; abject to those he saw he must stoop to, but imperious to all others. He had a violence of passion... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...court. He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...Buckingham called him to me, of a blundering understanding [not always clear, but often cloudy, as his looks were always. Sawyer's Transcript.] He was haughty... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 312 pages
...Court. He was very learned, not only hi Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...expression. He was a man, as the Duke of Buckingham once called him to me, of a blundering understanding. He was haughty beyond expression ; abject to... | |
 | James Miller - East Lothian (Scotland) - 1844 - 536 pages
..." He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...called him to me, of a blundering understanding He had a violence of passion that carried him often to fits like madness, in which he had no temper. If... | |
 | James Miller - East Lothian (Scotland) - 1844 - 540 pages
...He was very learned, not only in Ln^ in, in which he was a master, bnt in Creek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...with these an extraordinary memory, and a copious bat unpolished expression. He was a man, as the Duke of Buckingham called him to me, of a blundering... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 pages
...court. He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...copious, but unpolished expression. He was a man, as the I)uke of Buckingham said to me, of a blundering understanding. He was haughty beyond expression, abject... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - Great Britain - 1852 - 376 pages
...court. He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the...expression. He was a man, as the Duke of Buckingham said to me, of a blundering understanding. He was haughty beyond expression, — abject to those he... | |
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He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the historians ancient and modern : so that he had great materials. He had with these an extraordinary memory,... 
