| Several Hands - 1752 - 508 pągines
...foftly, that very often I heard him not, in the hurry of thofe paflions by which I was tranfported. Some calmer hours there were: in them I hearkened...him. Reflection had often its turn ; and the love of ftudy, and the defire of knowledge have never quite abandoned me. I am not therefore entirely'unprepared... | |
| New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pągines
...that very often I heard " him not, in the hurry of thofe pa/lions- with which I was " tranfported. Some calmer hours there were ; in them I " hearkened...Reflection had often its turn ; and the •*' love of ftudy and the defire of knowledge have never quite " abandoned me. I am not therefore intirely unprepared... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 376 pągines
...foftly, that very often I heard him not, in the hurry of thofe paflions by which 1 was tranfported. Some calmer hours there were : in them I hearkened...him. Reflection had often it-s turn, and the love of ftudy and the defire of knowkdge have never quite abandoned me. I am not therefore entirely unprepared... | |
| British Plutarch - 1776 - 350 pągines
...that very often I • heard him not in the hurry of thofe paffions by which I was tranfported ; fonoe calmer hours there were, in them I hearkened to him ; reflection had often its turn; and the love of -ftudy, and the defire of knowledge, have never quite abandoned me. 1 am not therefore entirely unprepared... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1793 - 570 pągines
...I heard him not, in the hurry of thofe paffions by which I was tranfported. Some calmer hours that were : in them I hearkened to him. Reflection had often its turn, and the love of ftudy and the defire of knowledge ' have never quite abandoned me. I am not therefore entirely unprepared... | |
| 1795 - 690 pągines
...foftly, ' that very often 1 hc.-ird him not, in the hurry of thofe paffions by * which I was tranfported. Some calmer hours there were : in them * I hearkened to him. Reflection had often its turti, and the love * of ftudy and the defire of knowledge, have never quite abandoned * me. 1 am not,... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1799 - 648 pągines
...study and desire of knowlege were what I felt all my life; and though my genius, unlike the daemon of Socrates, whispered so softly, that very often I heard him not in the hurry of those passions with which I was transported, yet some calmer hours there were, and in them I hearkened to him." With... | |
| 1799 - 616 pągines
...I felt all my life ; and though my genius, unlike the daemon of Socrates, whispered so softly, hat very often I heard him not in the hurry of those passions ”rith w^ich I was transported, yet some calmer hours there Werfe, "arid in them I hearkened to him,"... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pągines
...and desire of knowledge, were what I felt all " my life ; and though my genius, unlike the datmon " of Socrates, whispered so softly, that very often I " heard him not in the hurry of these passions with " which I was transported, yet some calmer hours " there were, and in them I hearkened... | |
| Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 pągines
...and of business, . " Solve senescentem mature sanus eqiuim." '-'•-• --, - - ; But Bat my genius, unlike the demon of Socrates, whispered so softly,...were: in them I hearkened to him. Reflection had often it's turn, and the love of study and the desire of knowledge have never quite abandoned me. I am not... | |
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