 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with hooks was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whose skill in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know ho could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hoars, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who, has lengthened, and one who has... | |
 | 1885 - 858 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with bonks was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...and such his copiousness of communication, that it maybe doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship. At this... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill... | |
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His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. 
