 | 1808 - 546 pages
...he shewed an inflexible attachment to the cause of liberty, and ourpiesent happy establishment. ". Notwithstanding the extraordinary honours that were...humble an opinion of himself, that he had no relish of the applause which was so deservedly paid him ; and he was so little vain and depirous of glory... | |
 | 1808 - 580 pages
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 | 1809 - 604 pages
...character, the admirable association of excellent moral qualities with transcendant powers of intellect. ' Notwithstanding the extraordinary honours that were...humble an opinion of himself, that he had no relish of the applause, which was so deservedly paid him ; and he was so little vain and desirous of glory... | |
 | 1811 - 530 pages
...station he showed an inflexible attachment to the cause of liberty and our present happy establishment. " Notwithstanding the extraordinary honours that were...humble an opinion of himself, that he had no relish of the applause which was so deservedly paid him; and he was so little vain of his works, that he,... | |
 | 1812 - 680 pages
...this we shall take the liberty of subjoining a quotation relating to the moral character of Newton' Notwithstanding the extraordinary honours that were...for the applause which he received. He was so little rain and desirous of glory from any of his works, that he would have let others run away with the glory... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 494 pages
...herself that she lived in the same country, and at the same time, with so illustrious a person. Yet, notwithstanding the extraordinary honours that were...had no relish for the applause which he received. In Spence's "Anecdotes" we are told, that when Ramsay was one day complimenting him on his discoveries... | |
 | 1813 - 584 pages
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 | 1813 - 574 pages
...interesting to many of our readers: ' Notwithstanding the extraordinary honours that were paid hims he had so humble an opinion of himself, that he had no relish for t\-\ applause which he received. He was so little vain and desirous of glory from any of his works,... | |
 | 1815 - 488 pages
...herself that she lived in the same country, and at the same time, with so illustrious a person. Yet, notwithstanding the extraordinary honours that were...had no relish for the applause which he received. In Spence's "Anecdotes" we are told, that when Ramsay was one day complimenting him on his discoveries... | |
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He was so little vain and desirous of glory from any of his works, that he would have let others run away with the glory of those inventions which have done so much honour to human nature, if his friends and countrymen had not been more jealous than he... 
