 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...with all formality) : " 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... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 556 pages
...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. Of any description of his character, his own account of it must form a material feature. The mere circumstance... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 566 pages
...the most comprehensive. 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. Of any description of... | |
 | 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 pages
...the most comprehensive. 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... | |
 | 1846 - 614 pages
...the most comprehensive. 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.' In Boswell's Hebridean Journal... | |
 | 1846 - 800 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 636 pages
...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." In Boswell's Hebridean Journal (Croker's edition, vol. ii., p. 267) will be found some very just remarks... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1846 - 798 pages
...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,... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1848 - 478 pages
...both in his life-time, and since his death, as approaching a* nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." A calmer, abler, juster commentator, has remarked : — " We may reasonably demur to Dr. Smith's moral... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...both in his lifetime and since his death, aa approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Let Dr. Smith consider, Was not Mr. Hume blest with good health, good spirits, good friends, a competent... | |
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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. 
