 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...and most pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of a genius so lively, and an understanding so extensive, as rendered him scarce...any thing that could be known; of so vast and ready <i comprehension, that he immediately made himself master of what he attempted ; and of so prodigious... | |
 | William Cook - 1805 - 240 pages
...to himself a •man of genius so lively, and an understanding so extensive, as rendered him scarcely ignorant of any thing that could .be known ; of so vast and ready a coinprehension, that he immediately made himself master of whatever he attempted ; and so prodigious... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...excellent and most pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of genius so lovely, and an • understanding so extensive, as rendered him...comprehension, that he immediately made himself master of what he attempted ; and of so prodigious a memory, that he never forgot what he had once learned ;... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...and most pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of a genius so lively, and an understanding so extensive, as rendered him scarce...comprehension, that he immediately made himself master of what he attempted ; and of so prodigious a memory, that he never forgot what he had once learned ;... | |
 | Apologetics - 1811 - 300 pages
...excellent and most pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of genius so lovely, smd an understanding so extensive, as rendered him scarce...known ; of so vast and ready a comprehension, that he immediate! v made himself master of 'what he attempted ;. and of so prodigious a memory, .that he never... | |
 | Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully - France - 1812 - 468 pages
...the nvost pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of a genius so lively, and an- understanding So extensive, as rendered him. scarce...of any thing that could be known ; of so va-st and readjr a comprehension, that he immediately made himself master of what he attempted ; and of so prodigions... | |
 | Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully - France - 1817 - 494 pages
...a genius so lively, and an understanding so extensive, as rendered him acquainted with almost every thing that could be known; of so vast and ready a...prodigious a memory, that he never forgot what he had once learned; he possessed all parts of philosophy and the mathematics, particularly fortification... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...and most pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of a genius so lively, and an understanding so extensive, as rendered him scarce...comprehension, that he immediately made himself master of what he attempted ; and of so prodigious a memory, that he never forgot what he had once learned; he... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 386 pages
...and most pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of a genius so lively, and an understanding so extensive, as rendered him scarce...comprehension, that he immediately made himself master of what he attempted ; and of so prodigious a memory, that he never forgot what he had once learned ;... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...and most pernicious qualities. Let the reader represent to himself a man of a genius 10 lively, and an understanding so extensive, as rendered him scarce...comprehension, that he immediately made himself master of what he attempted ; and of so prodigious a memory, that he never forgot what he had once learned ;... | |
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... he attempted ; and of so prodigious a memory, that he never forgot what he had once learned; he possessed all parts of philosophy and the mathematics, particularly fortification and drawing; even in theology he was so well skilled, that he was an... 
