 | Edmund Burke - 1779 - Počet stránok 734
...profeflion for me ; but I found an unfurmoun table averfiori to every thing but the purfuits ojf philofophy and general learning ; and while they fancied I was...Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the authors which I was fecretly devouring. My very flender fortune, however, being unfuitable to this plan of... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - Počet stránok 536
...profeflion for me -, but I found an unfurmountable averfion to every thing but the purfuits of philofophy and general learning; and while they fancied I was...Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the authors which I was fecretly devouring. MY very {lender fortune, however, being unfuitable to this plan of... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - Počet stránok 452
...profeffion for me ; but I found an unfurmountable averfion to every thing but the purfiiits of philofophy and general learning; and while they fancied I was...Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the authors which I was fecretly devouring. MY very {lender fortune , however, being unfuitable to this plan of... | |
 | 1794 - Počet stránok 614
...profeffion for me; but I found an unfurmountable averfion to every thing but the purfuits of philofophy and general learning ; and while they fancied I was...Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the authors which 1 was fecretly devouring. My very Hender fortune, hqwever, being unfuitable to this plan of life,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Počet stránok 636
...notion, that the law was a proper profession for him; ' but,' says he, 'I found an insur•mountable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of philosophy and general learning; and while they fancied 1 was poring upon Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the authors which I was secretly devouring.'... | |
 | 1805 - Počet stránok 608
...ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. My studious disposition, my sobrieiy, and my industry, gave my family a notion that the law was a proper profession for me ; but 1 found an insurmountable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of philosophy and general learning... | |
 | John Stark - 1805 - Počet stránok 488
...the profession of the law would be a proper employment for him ; but young Hume had an insuperable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of philosophy and general learning; and he himstlf tells us, that when he was supposed to be studying Voet and Vmnins, Cicero and Virgil were... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - Počet stránok 498
...application to poetry, and utter neglec.t of the law. Hume says, in the slight sketch he gives of his life, " My studious disposition, my sobriety, and my industry,...law was a proper profession for me ; but I found an insurmountable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of philosophy, and general learning ; and while... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - Počet stránok 606
...• me ; but I found an infurmountable averfion to every thing • but the purfuits of philofophy, and general learning ; and • while they fancied...and Vinnius, ' Cicero and Virgil were the authors which I was fecretly de• vouring.' Young has defcribed the charafter of fuch a parent as Defcartes... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - Počet stránok 532
...discovered a strong passion for literature, and prosecuted his studies very successfully. He say* himself, " My studious disposition, my sobriety, and my industry,...Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the authors which I was secretly devouring. " My very slender fortune, however, being unsuitable to this plan of... | |
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I passed through the ordinary course of education with success, and was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. My studious disposition, my sobriety, and my... 
