 | Andrew Lang - 1890 - 282 oldal
...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...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." The signs of the times grew darker. In 1636 the King and Queen visited Oxford,... | |
 | 1891
...dwelt with him, as in a. college situated in a purer air ; that his house was a university bound in a less volume ; whither they came, not so much for repose as study, anil to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 424 oldal
...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...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. . . . 5 He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894
...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...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother (who was a lady... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894
...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...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his . mother (who was a... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 99 oldal
...a purer air, so that his was a University bound in a less volume, whither his intellectual friends came not so much for repose as study, and to examine...laziness and consent made current in conversation." This indicates that, while study was going on, liberal inquiry was also on foot. But clouds again gathered,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897
...dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university bound in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. The great opinion he had of the uprightness and integrity of those persons who... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Grolier Club - 1898 - 304 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, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." — Beautiful delineation of his character (p. 277) : a finer person, as here... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 316 oldal
...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...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the state or the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900
...so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination. — His acquaintance was cultivated by the most polite and 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... | |
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... 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... 
