 Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.  Great men of Great Britain - Página 141de Cyclopaedia - 1866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 páginas
...has told her — as he tells our children, if we place Hume in their hands — that Hume's character approached as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit ; and therefore there is hardly any portion of the work in which the professors of religion are mentioned,... | |
 | 1846 - 636 páginas
...Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." In Boswell's Hebridean Journal (Croker's edition, vol. ii., p. 267) will be found some very just remarks... | |
 | 1846 - 614 páginas
...Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' In Boswell's Hebridean Journal (Croker's Edition, vol. ii. p. '267) will be found some very just remarks... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 560 páginas
...the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime, and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous...perhaps, the nature of human frailty will permit. Of any description of his character, his own account of it must form a material feature. The mere circumstance... | |
 | 1846 - 604 páginas
...Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since hia death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' In Boswell's Hebridean Journal (Croker's Edition, vol. ii. p. '267) will be found some very just remarks... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1846 - 798 páginas
...application, learning and thought, — forming, in his distinguished friend's opinion, as near an approach " to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit," — is well known ; and, as a friend's tribute to a man whose excellent qualities arc correctly enumerated,... | |
 | 1846 - 800 páginas
...application, learning and thought, — forming, in his distinguished friend's opinion, as near an approach " to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit," — is well known ; and, as a friend's tribute to a man whose excellent qualities are correctly enumerated,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1846 - 606 páginas
...Upon the whole, 1 have always considered him, hoth in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the uature of human frailty will permit.' In Boswell's Hebridean Journal (Croker's Edition, vol. ii. p.... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 588 páginas
...Hume, both in his life-time, and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a PERFECTLV WISE AND VIRTUOUS MAN, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." * My Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is of all my writings, historical, philosophical,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 páginas
...Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man aa perhaps the nature of human frailty will 3 [It may be supposed that it was somewhat like what Mrs.... | |
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