 Till subdued by age and illness, his conversation was more brilliant and instructive than that of any human being I ever had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure...  The American Jurist and Law Magazine - Halaman 261843Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 halaman
...had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction,...colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected. He remembered things, words, thoughts, dates, and everything that was wanted. His language was beautiful,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 halaman
...had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction,...colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected. He remembered things, words, thoughts, dates, and everything that was wanted. His language was beautiful,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 halaman
...had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction,...colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected. He remembered things, words, thoughts, dates, and everything that was wanted. His language was beautiful,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 halaman
...had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction,...colloquial oppression into which it is, sometimes, erected. 1 He had a method of putting things so mildly and interrogatively, that he always procured the readiest... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 388 halaman
...had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction,...colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected. He remembered things, words, thoughts, dates, and every thing that was wanted. His language was beautiful,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 halaman
...with. His memory (vast and prodigous as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure aud instruction, rather than that dreadful engine of colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected. He remembered things, words, thoughts, dates, and every thing that was wanted. His language was beautiful,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 halaman
...had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction,...colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected. He remembered things, words, thoughts, dates, and every thing that was wanted. His language was beautiful,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 halaman
...with. His memory (vast and prodigous as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure ami instruction, rather than that dreadful engine of colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected. He remembered things, words, thoughts, dates, and every thing that was wanted. His language was beautiful,... | |
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