... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. A General Biographical Dictionary - Page 5by John Gorton - 1851Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which... | |
| samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...his imagination, nor clouded his perlpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exadr, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaci, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reaibncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exsd:, and... | |
| 1784 - 778 pages
...npr clouded his pcrfpicacity. To " every work he brought a rneniory full trauglu, together " with a fancy fertile of original combinations ; and at " once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and " the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be ,," always exaft,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fertile of original com- / binations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
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