| Edward Peterson - America - 1853 - 420 pages
...in him a character of high and attractive, excellence. The learned Bishop Atterbury said of him, " So much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, until I saw this gentleman." Pope, who as & friend knew him well, describes him as possessed of " every... | |
| 1855 - 692 pages
...Atterbury, an acute but not very charitably-tempered man, said, after his first interview with him: " so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had bcen the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." Adverse factions and hostile wits,... | |
| James Stuart Murray Anderson - Blacks - 1856 - 846 pages
...Atterbury,' as Mackintosh has justly designated him, — who, after an interview with Berkeley, declared, ' So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman V With Swift, probably, Berkeley had already made some acquaintance, before the former quitted Ireland... | |
| William Allen - Biography - 1857 - 926 pages
...acquaintance in the highest estimation. Bishop Atterbury, after being introduced to him, exclaimed, " so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." It is well known, that Bishop Berkeley rejected the commonly received notion of the existence of matter,... | |
| William Allen - Biography - 1857 - 930 pages
...acquaintance in the highest estimation. Bishop Atterbury, after being introduced to him, exclaimed, " so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...innocence, and such humility I did not think had been the ]K>rtion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." It is well known, that Bishop Berkeley rejected... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1857 - 492 pages
...little vanities of the town." Atterbury declared, after an interview with him : " So much understanding, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, until I saw this gentleman." It is related by Lord Bathurst. that, on one occasion, when several members... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1857 - 490 pages
...little vanities of the town." Atterbury declared, after an interview with him : "So much understanding, so much innocence. and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, until I saw this gentleman." It is related by Lord Bathurst, that, on one occasion, when several members... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 486 pages
...little vanities of the town." Atterbury declared, after an interview with him : "So much understanding, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, until I saw this gentleman." It is related by Lord Bathurst, that, on one occasion, when several members... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1857 - 480 pages
...little vanities of the town." Atterbury declared, after an interview with him : " So much understanding, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of an j but angels, until I saw this gentleman." It is related by Lord Bathurst, that, on one occasion,... | |
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