 | 1875 - 402 pagina’s
...his relative. Lifting up his hands in astonishment, Atterbury replied, ' So much understanding, BO much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility,...portion of any but angels till I saw this gentleman.' Meanwhile Berkeley, on account of the ' monstrous paradox ' be was supposed to maintain, that ' sensible... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1876 - 432 pagina’s
...virtue under heaven." He enjoyed the regard of Swift and Addisou, and the fastidious Atterbury said of him, " So much learning, so much knowledge, so much...portion of any but angels till I saw this gentleman." The principal philosophical works of Berkeley, beside that already named, were the Treatise on the... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1876 - 626 pagina’s
...the fastidious and turhulent Atterbury said, after an interview with him, ' So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility,...portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.'* ' Lord Bathurst told me,' says Warton, ' that the members of the Scribblers' Club being met at his... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 562 pagina’s
...often quoted, was so sweet and charming a character. Atterbury said of him : " So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility...portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." 8 Swift said : " He is an absolute philosopher with regard to money, titles, and power."4 Pope let... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1878 - 450 pagina’s
...ascribed — " To Berkeley every virtue under heav'n." 1 Atterbury declared, "So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility...portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." 1 And Swift, when recommending him as a young man to the Earl of Peterborough as chaplain and secretary,... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 pagina’s
...elating him, or turning him from his modest, sober estimation of his own powers. Even the fastidious Atterbury said, after an interview with him, ' So...portion of any but angels till I saw this gentleman.' He resigned the deanery of Dcrry, which was worth eleven hundred pounds a year, in order to dedicate... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 364 pagina’s
...elating him, or turning him from his modest, sober estimation of his own powers. Even the fastidious Atterbury said, after an interview with him, ' So...portion of any but angels till I saw this gentleman.' He resigned the deanery of Derry, which was worth eleven hundred pounds a year, in order to dedicate... | |
 | 1879 - 308 pagina’s
...discerning, fastidious, and turbulent Atterbury said, after an interview with him, ' So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility,...portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.'" And yet Holmes discovers in Bishop Berkeley this singular weak spot, — that he regarded Tar-water... | |
 | 1879 - 796 pagina’s
...thought of the Dublin fellow. He answered, raising his hands in astonishment, "So much underderstanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility,...portion of any but angels till I saw this gentleman. A quarter of a century later a similar tribute is paid in the well-known lines of Pope: Even in a Bishop... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pagina’s
...discerning, fastidious, and turbulent Attcrbury said, after an interview with him, 'So much understauding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility,...portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.' . . . Of the exquisite grace and beauty of his diction, no man accustomed to English coinposition can... | |
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So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman... 
