 | Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 676 σελίδες
...simplicity of his heart, yet it would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public. He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 σελίδες
...interesting light, the artless simplicity of his heart, yet it would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted...for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth,... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - 1861 - 464 σελίδες
...light, the endless simplicity of his heart — yet it would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted...for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 646 σελίδες
...saw his literary friends. See Duguld Steward Biographical Memoirs, p. 73, Ediub. 1811, 4to. •* " He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 606 σελίδες
...seine litterarischen Freunde. Siehe Dugald Stewart's Biographical Memoirs, p. 73, Edinh. 1811, 4to. S") „He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1864 - 660 σελίδες
...his literary ::.1-гн1я. See Diiyil'l Mrwitrfa Biograjihiral Mnrwirs, p. 73, Edinb. 1811, 4to. " " He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, • r for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 σελίδες
...* See, for some anecdotes of thia kind, the Quarterly Jievicw, vol. xxxvi. 200. describes him as " certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world or for the business of active life." The subject of his studies rendered him " habitually inattentive to familiar... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 228 σελίδες
...life, 1 See, for some anecdotes of this kind, the Quarterly Review, vol. xxxvi. 200. describes him as "certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world or for the business of active life," The subject of his studies rendered him " habitually inattentive to familiar... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1887 - 718 σελίδες
...should himself have been a most unpractical man. His friend and biographer, Dugald Stewart, says, " He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world or for the business of active life." His acts of private charity far exceeded what might have been supposed to... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 824 σελίδες
...should himself have been a most unpractical man. His friend and biographer, Dugald Stewart, says, " He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world or for the business of active life." His acts of private charity far exceeded what might have been supposed to... | |
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He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth, and the variety of materials which his own invention... 
