 ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose...  Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters - 109. oldalszerző: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 300 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 oldal
...purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study; and to examine and refine those grosser...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother (who was a lady of another persuasion... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 oldal
...purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study; and to examine and refine those grosser...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother (who was a lady of another persuasion... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 348 oldal
...to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity & integrity of life." Men came to him by his commerce " to examine and refine those grosser propositions,...and consent made current in vulgar conversation." — Beautiful delineation of his character (p. 277) : a finer person, as here shadowed forth, than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 oldal
...accurate men, so that his house was a University in less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in conversation. " Bayle's account of Menage may also be quoted as exceedingly applicable to the great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 oldal
...purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...and consent made current in vulgar conversation." I honour that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the State or the army, not to be a jurist... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 oldal
...air ; so that his house was a university bound in a lesser volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and content made current in vulgar conversation. Of his political opinions Clarendon says : — In the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 oldal
...accurate men, so that his house was an University in less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in conversation.' Bayle's account of Menage may also be quoted as exceedingly applicable to the great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 oldal
...university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine ar^d refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." I honour that man whose ambition it is, not to win VOL. ill. E laurels in the state or the army, not... | |
 | Herbert Arthur Evans - 1905 - 438 oldal
...air ; so that his house was a university bound in a lesser volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...and consent made current in vulgar conversation." And elsewhere he writes : " The lord of the house did not even know of their coining and going, nor... | |
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