 ... thinking how different a place London is to different people. They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government...  The British Prose Writers - Pagina 1101821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market have railed against him till they were weary, without his troubling himself about them. in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible. On Wednesday, July 6, he was engaged... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagina’s
...thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast market ry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." On Wednesday, July 6, he was engaged... | |
 | Charles A. Gillig - 1900 - 274 pagina’s
...of London, says : "A politician thinks of it as the seat of Government ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a...; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of taverns; but the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all its vanity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pagina’s
...thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a...prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a dramatick enthusiast, as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments ; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pagina’s
...thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market hall we find them, and, at the same time, the obedience due to dramatick enthusiast, as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments ; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage... | |
 | 1871 - 946 pagina’s
...thinks of it merely as the seat of Government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a...; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of taverns, &c., &c. ; but the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pagina’s
...thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a...struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible. On Wednesday, July 6th, he was engaged... | |
 | Douglas Ford - 1907 - 386 pagina’s
...thirty then — came to town. " How different a place," said he, " London is to different people ; but the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." "By numbers there from shame or censure... | |
 | 1907 - 598 pagina’s
...whose narrow minds are contracted to one particular pursuit view it only through that medinm . . . but the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." Leigh Hunt, commenting on this passage... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 pagina’s
...thinks of it merely as the scat of government in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious...with it, as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible. On Wednesday, July 6, he was engaged... | |
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