 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft - Authors, English - 1907 - 644 pages
...was a master, but also in Greek " and Hebrew. He had read a great deal in divinity, and " almost all historians, ancient and modern, so that he had "great...called him to me, "of a blundering understanding, not always clear, but often " clouded, as his looks were always. He was haughty " beyond expression... | |
 | English literature - 1758 - 420 pages
...materials. He had with thefe an extraordinary memory, and a copious but unpolilhed exprelfion. He vras a man, as the Duke of Buckingham called him to me, of a blundering underllanding. He was haughty beyond expreflion ; abjeft la thofe he faw he mult floop to, but imperious... | |
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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,... 
