 | English literature - 1818 - 590 pages
...extraordinary man, that we cannot resist the temptation of entering more largely into it. * Madera has made great improvement in English, and his character...the facility with which we do some things, and his enterprizing mind suggests to him the possibility of his imitating us; but when he is made sensible... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1818 - 574 pages
...extraordinary man', that we cannot resist the temptation of entering more largely into it. ' Madera has made great improvement in English, and his character...the facility with which we do some things, and his enterprizing mind suggests to him the possibility of his imitating us; but when he is made sensible... | |
 | Basil Hall - Korea - 1820 - 296 pages
...his character was altogether more developed. -He was now quite at his ease in our company, and seemed to take the most extraordinary interest in every thing...desire to inform himself on all subjects sometimes distressed him a good deal ; observing the facility with which we did some things, his enterprising... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...weeks after our arrival.' We cannot resist the temptation of adding this further extract. ' Madera has made great improvement in English, and his character...developed. He is quite at his ease in our company, and seenps to take the most extraordinary interest in every thing belonging to us ; but his ardent desire... | |
 | 1818 - 586 pages
...extraordinary man, that we cannot resist the temptation of entering more largely into it. ' Madera has made great improvement in English, and his character...seems to take the most extraordinary interest in every thini:; belonging to us; but his ardent desire to inform himself on all subjects sometimes distresses... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 572 pages
...extraordinary man, that we cannot resist the temptation of entering more largely into it. N ' M4dera has made great improvement in English, and his character...his ardent desire to inform himself on all subjects lometimes distresses him a good deal ; he observes the facility with which we do some things, and his... | |
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Madera has made great improvement in English, and his character is altogether more developed. He is quite at his ease in our company, and seems to take the most extraordinary, interest in every thing belonging to us ; but his ardent desire to inform himself... 