 ... which he does not discover some skill ; and scarce any kind of knowledge, profane or sacred, abstruse or elegant, which he does not appear to have cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the...  A New General Biographical Dictionary - Page 114by Hugh James Rose - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 400 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning and the 'clearness of his...collateral considerations: -but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight ; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 548 pages
...the clearness of his decisions : on •what, ever snbject he employed his mind, there start. ed np immediately so many images before him, that he lost one by grasping another. His memory snpplied him with so many illnstrations, parallel or dependent notions, that he was always starting... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 402 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning and the clearness of his...collateral considerations: but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning and the clearness of his...collateral considerations : but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight ; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 504 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning, and the clearness of his...collateral considerations : but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight ; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 518 pages
...plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning, and the clearness of his decuions : on whatever subject he employed his mind, there started...collateral considerations : but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight ; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 504 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning, and the clearness of his decisions : on whatever subject he employed his miml, there started up immediately so many images before him, th.it he lost one by grasping -mother.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 872 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning and the clearness of his...collateral considerations : but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight ; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 564 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning and the clearness of his...collateral considerations : but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight ; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pages
...cultivated with success. His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning and the clearness of his...collateral considerations : but the spirit and vigour of his pursuit always gives delight ; and the reader follows him, without reluctance, through his mazes,... | |
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