 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 468 pages
...changed my whole nature. In short, Dugald Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...pupil of his ever ceased to respect philosophy, or was ever false to his principles, without feeling the crime aggravated by the recollection of the morality... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 462 pages
...changed my whole nature. In short, Dugald Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...pupil of his ever ceased to respect philosophy, or was ever false to his principles^ without feeling the crime aggravated by the recollection of the morality... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1860 - 368 pages
...changed my whole nature. In short, Dugald Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times his memory would have descended...pupil of his ever ceased to respect philosophy, or was ever false to his principles, without feeling the crime aggravated by the recollection of the morality... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1860 - 284 pages
...changed my whole nature. In short, Dugald Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...the tendencies of physical pursuits and political convulsions, he has exalted the character of his country and his generation. No intelligent pupil of... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 896 pages
...is good and fair." Lord Cockburn describes him as "one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages." "All the years I remained about Edinburgh," says James Mill, " I used, as often as I could, to steal... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...is good and fair." Lord Oockburn describes him as "one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages." "All the years I remained about Edinburgh," says James Mill, " I used, as often as I could, to steal... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 874 pages
...as " one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would Jiave descended to us as that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages." "All the years I remained about Edinburgh," says James Mill, " I used, as often as I could, to steal... | |
 | Holton Library, Brighton, Mass - 1865 - 280 pages
...writers, — whose title meant what it said ; of Dugald Stewart, of whom it is well affirmed that had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages ; — the Academic Questions of Cicero, also his life in three volumes by Middleton, and, more recent,... | |
 | Brighton (Boston, Mass.) - 1867 - 112 pages
...writers, — whose title meant what it said ; of Dugald Stewart, of whom it is well affirmed that had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages ; — the Academic Questions of Cicero, also his life in three volumes by Middleton, and, more recent,... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - Medical - 1868 - 128 pages
...changed my whole nature. In short, Dugald Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended...the tendencies of physical pursuits and political convulsions, he has exalted the character of his country and his generation. No intelligent pupil of... | |
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Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended to us as that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages. 
