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" Bishop Atterbury asserts, on the other hand, that the lively and piercing eye did not belong to Sir Isaac during the last twenty years of his life. " Indeed," says he, " in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity... "
Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ... - Page 173
1831
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Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence. Volume the Second. With Letters To, and ...

Alexander Pope - 1735 - 432 pages
...him, at Icaft not for twenty Years part, about which time I firft came acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole Air of his Face and make, there was nothing...of that penetrating Sagacity which appears in his Compofures. He had fomething rather languid in his Look and Manner, which did not raife any great Expectation...
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The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection ...

British - 1762 - 410 pages
...for twenty years paft, about which time," fays the bifhop, " I became acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating fagachy which appears in his competition; ; he had fomething rather languid in his look and manner,...
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The Epistolary Correspondence, Visitation Charges, Speeches, and ...

Francis Atterbury - English letters - 1783 - 416 pages
...him, at leaft not for twenty years paft, about which time I firft came acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating fagacity which appears in his compofares. He had fomething rather languid in his look and manner, which...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 5

Great Britain - 1791 - 354 pages
...for twenty years paft, about which time," fays the bifhop, " 1 became acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating fagacity which appears in his competitions ; }ie had fomething rather Ian guid in his look and manner,...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...him, at least not for twenty years past, about which time I first became acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears tleman, we find a striking remark on the Bishop of Meaux.* " There is a ferocious warmth in all he...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...him, at least not for twenty years past, about which time I first became acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which apoearg tleman, we find a striking remark on the Bishop of Meaux.* " There is a ferocious warmth in...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...for twenty years past, about which time," says the bishop, " I became acquainted with him. Indeed. in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing...sagacity which appears in his compositions ; he had •oniething rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation in those...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...not for twenty years past," says the bidiop, " about which time I became acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating sagaciiy which appears in his compositions ; he had something rather languid in hU look and manner,...
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A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...lost but one tooth during his whole life. Bishop Atterbury says, that, in the whole air of Sir Isaac's face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions : that he had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raiie any great expectation...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 5

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...at least not for twenty years past, about which time (he adds) I became acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...great expectation in those who did not know him." In contemplating his profound genius, it becomes a doubt, whether sagacity, penetration, strength,...
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