 Mr. Hallam is, on the whole, far better qualified than any other writer of our time for the office which he has undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished...  The moor and the loch - Pagina 1door John Colquhoun - 1841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 550 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp and by the delicacy of its tact. His speculations have none of that vagueness which is the common fault... | |
 | John Asaph Rice - 1870 - 638 pagina’s
..."He has great industry and great acuteness — his knowledge is extensive, various, and profound — his mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its touch.'' — Edinburgh Review. 891 [HALLECK (Fit2 Greene).] Alnwick Castle,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1870 - 552 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp and by the delicacy of its tact. His speculations have none of that vagueness which is the common fault... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1870 - 388 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp. and by the delicacy of its tact. . . . His work is eminently judicial. The whole spirit is that of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and proftmnd. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its tact. His speculations have none of that vagueness which is the common fault... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pagina’s
...London. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp and by the delicacy of its tact. His speculations have none of that vagueness which is the common fault... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its tact. . . . Hie work ie eminently judicial. Its spirit is that of the bench,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, varied, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its tact. . . . His work is eminently judicial. The whole spirit is that of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp and by the delicacy of its tact. His speculations have none of that vagueness which is the common fault... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pagina’s
...undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its tact. His speculations have none of that vagueness which is the common fault... | |
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