 I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that...  The Life of Samuel Johnson - Pagina 117door James Boswell - 1873 - 576 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pagina’s
...as an account of the hermetick philosophy, and as furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the human mind. If it were merely imaginary, it...in his conversation ; but I do not believe there is any thing of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pagina’s
...as an account of the hermetick philosophy, and as furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies , and though he wo@! any thing of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pagina’s
...as an account of the Hermetic philosophy, and as furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the human mind. If it were merely imaginary, it...in his conversation; but I do not believe there is any thing of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pagina’s
...bishops. His mode of estimating the piety of his neighbors was somewhat singular. ' Campbell,' said he, 'is a good man, — a pious man. I am afraid he has...church for many years ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat ; this shows he has good principles.' Spain and Sicily must surely contain... | |
 | 1849 - 606 pagina’s
...bishops. His mode of estimating the piety of his neighbors was somewhat singular. 'Campbell,' said he, 'is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not...church for many years ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat; this shows he has good principles.' " How different is Carlyle's treatment... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pagina’s
...as an account of the Hermetic philosophy, and as furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the human mind. If it were merely imaginary, it...in his conversation ; but I do not believe there is any thing of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pagina’s
...Hermippus Redi-vivus, on which Boswell makes a no less curious comment. " Campbell," said Johnson, " is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not...church for many years ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles." On which, says Boswell in a note,... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pagina’s
...bishops. His mode of estimating the piety of his neighbors was somewhat singular. ' Campbell,' said he, ' e same. I know not whether I make myself wholly understood...make you see . that no dependence is to be placed without pulling off his hat ; this shows he has good principles.' " How different is Carlyle's treatment... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pagina’s
...We take one from Boswell, with Mr. Hunt's comment on the biographer. "Campbell," said Johnson, "isa good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been...church for many years ; but he never passes a church without pulling off hi? hat. This shows that he has good principles.'1 "On this" (we quote Hunt), "says... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pagina’s
...is not always rigidly careful of truth in his conversation ; but 1 do not believe there is any thing of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good...church for many years ;* but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles. I used to go pretty often to Campbell's... | |
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