| John Ramsay McCulloch - Catalogs, Dictionary - 1862 - 432 pages
...a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed...and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits... | |
| T. S. Memes - Theology, Doctrinal - 1867 - 548 pages
...and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yot bad not spprcsscd , see the two following passages : " 0 Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the with a fancy fertile of original combinations* and at once exerted tho powers of the scholar, the reasoner,... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory fully fraught, together with a fancy fertile ot original combinations ; and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Cathedrals - 1864 - 442 pages
...fervid and vehement, supplied io $t%II. 59 by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed...with a fancy fertile of original combinations; and at ouce exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasouer, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious... | |
| David Addison Harsha - 1865 - 272 pages
...mind fervent and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry ; with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicuity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1866 - 654 pages
...inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagiaation nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought...and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1871 - 836 pages
...я mind fervid and Tenement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed...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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1871 - 832 pages
...faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied hy incessant and unlimited inquiry with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed...imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work lie brought a memory full-fninglit, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at... | |
| American literature - 1879 - 592 pages
...incessant and unlimited inquiry with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not impressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. To every...combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, tne reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits... | |
| Richard John King - Cathedrals - 1874 - 470 pages
...supplied bishops oTHarbudon to gjttbtll. 69 by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed...and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits... | |
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