| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 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 - 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
...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 his purfuits were too eager to be alwayscautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 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 exadr, and his purfuits were too eager to be always, cautious. ' His abilities gave him an haughty... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...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 his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 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 exaci, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,... | |
| 1784 - 778 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 exaft, and his purfuits were too eager to be aU " ways pautious. His abilities gave him an haughty... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 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, 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
...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... | |
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