He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil : had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy ; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels... The works of Samuel Johnson - 371 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1823全文表示 - この書籍について
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 ページ
...England, France, and Italy ; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels...favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in paintings, prints, architecture, and gardening. With such a fund of knowledge, his conversation must... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1911 - 444 ページ
...principal part of his plan of study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusement ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture,...instructing and entertaining; but he was also a good man, a well-bred man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection... | |
| Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 ページ
...a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics made a principal part of his plan of study. Voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite...knowledge his conversation must have been equally instructive and entertaining. But he was also a good man, a well bred man, a man of virtue and humanity."... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1915 - 252 ページ
...principal part of his plan of study. Voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusement : and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening. With such a fund of knowJedge, his conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining. But he was also a... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1918 - 254 ページ
...principal part of his plan of study. Voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusement : and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture,...instructing and entertaining. But he was also a good man, a well-bred man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 ページ
...same words, adding: "He knew every branch of history. . . . Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels...taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening " — all of which is no exaggeration, as may be seen from his manuscripts. As for sheer endurance... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 334 ページ
...same words, adding: "He knew every branch of history. . . . Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels...taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening " — all of which is no exaggeration, as may be seen from his manuscripts. As for sheer endurance... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 ページ
...same words, adding: "He knew every branch of history. . . . Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels...taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening " — all of which is no exaggeration, as may be seen from his manuscripts. As for sheer endurance... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 ページ
...branch of history : he was an unwearied student of metaphysics and politics, an eager antiquarian, and he had a fine taste in "painting, prints, architecture, and gardening." We know him to have been an ardent student of the natural sciences as his age conceived them, a fine... | |
| Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 ページ
...England, France, and » Italy ; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels...his conversation must have been equally instructing 10 and entertaining ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character... | |
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