 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1872 - 340 pages
...Latin exercises, written at this period, which, in the opinion of the most competent judges, manifest a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study. Occasionally his leisure hours were devoted to poetry, and his Latin verses were evidently the result... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1875 - 362 pages
...vigour or to so much purpose. His Latin essays written at this period " show," says Dr. Johnson, " a degree of knowledge both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." This verdict of Johnson is only just. One method adopted by Watts in his studies he has commended to... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1884 - 744 pages
...physical, metaphysical, ethical, and theological theses, is extant. Dr. Samuel Johnson says, they " show a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." Mr. Rowe, his teacher, was the pastor of an Independent church worshiping in Girdler's Hall, on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pages
...Archbishop of Tuam. Some Latin Essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...to Latin poetry. His verses to his brother, in the glyconick2 measure, written when he was seventeen, are remarkably easy and elegant. Some of his other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...Archbishop of Tuam 3. Some Latin Essays 4, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...hints in his Miscellanies, a maker of verses from 6 fifteen to fifty 5, and in his youth he appears to have paid attention to Latin poetry. His verses... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 pages
...upon physical, metaphysical, ethical and theological subjects. The theses, Dr. Johnson remarks, "show a degree of knowledge both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." One of the methods which Watts adopted to help his studies, was to summarise the writers upon the various... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 pages
...essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, (according to Dr. Johnson) shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." While at the academy, he cultivated an acquaintance with the muses; or as himself modestly expresses... | |
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Some Latin Essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, show a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological, such as very few attain by a much longer course of study. He was, as he hints in his Miscellanies... 
