 The matter of fact is, that a classical scholar of twenty-three or twenty-four is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry he has...  The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches - Strana 206podľa Sydney Smith - 1852 - Počet stránok 226Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - Počet stránok 386
...principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, aud his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry...understanding are left wholly without cultivation ; ho hates the pain of thinking, and suspects every man whose boldness and originality call upon him... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - Počet stránok 386
...principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, aud his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry...and unamusing facts as the materials of reasoning. AH the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation; he hates... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1859 - Počet stránok 382
...principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation;... | |
 | Radical Freelance, George Washington Carleton - 1868 - Počet stránok 307
...intrigues of the heathen gods, . . . talents for speculation [speculation^ so useful to an American], and original inquiry he has none, nor has he formed the invaluable habit of tracing things up to their first principles, or of collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1870 - Počet stránok 842
...principally conversant with the works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry...without cultivation ; he hates the pain of thinking, and suspecta every man whose boldness and originality call upon him (o defend his opinions and prc ve his... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - Počet stránok 564
...principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 502
...style of elegant imbecility, unworthy of the talents with which nature had endowed him, * * and that all the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation." Whewell, the most learned of Cambridge professors, has observed : " It isimportant for those who know... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - Počet stránok 598
...principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry...formed the invaluable habit of pushing things up to tiieir first principles, Qr of collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All,*he... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - Počet stránok 508
...principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1905 - Počet stránok 566
...things up to their first principles, or of collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultiyation ; he hates the pain of thinking, and suspects every man whose boldness and originality... | |
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