 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 էջ
...acquirements:—" Some Latin essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at his academy, show a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study;" and, "in his youth he appears to have paid attention to Latin poetry: his verses to his brother in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 էջ
...Archbishop of Tuam.' Some Latin Essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, show a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological, such as very few attain by a mnch longer course of study. He was, as he hints in his ' Miscellanies,' a maker of verses from fifteen... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1871 - 684 էջ
...means a too friendly critic of the works of the nonconformist. The theses, he remarks, " showed ft degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study," and a perusal of some of the papers which have since been published enables us to confirm this opinion.... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1872 - 340 էջ
...Latin exercises, written at this period, which, in the opinion of the most competent judges, manifest a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study. Occasionally his leisure hours were devoted to poetry, and his Latin verses were evidently the result... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1875 - 362 էջ
...vigour or to so much purpose. His Latin essays written at this period " show," says Dr. Johnson, " a degree of knowledge both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." This verdict of Johnson is only just. One method adopted by Watts in his studies he has commended to... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1884 - 744 էջ
...physical, metaphysical, ethical, and theological theses, is extant. Dr. Samuel Johnson says, they " show a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." Mr. Rowe, his teacher, was the pastor of an Independent church worshiping in Girdler's Hall, on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 էջ
...Archbishop of Tuam. Some Latin Essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...to Latin poetry. His verses to his brother, in the glyconick2 measure, written when he was seventeen, are remarkably easy and elegant. Some of his other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 էջ
...of Tuam 3. Some Latin Essays 4, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...hints in his Miscellanies, a maker of verses from 6 fifteen to fifty 5, and in his youth he appears to have paid attention to Latin poetry. His verses... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 էջ
...physical, metaphysical, ethical and theological subjects. The theses, Dr. Johnson remarks, "show a degree of knowledge both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." One of the methods which Watts adopted to help his studies, was to summarise the writers upon the various... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 էջ
...essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, (according to Dr. Johnson) shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological,...very few attain by a much longer course of study." While at the academy, he cultivated an acquaintance with the muses; or as himself modestly expresses... | |
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He was, as he hints in his Miscellanies, a maker of verses from fifteen to fifty, and in his youth he appears to have paid attention to Latin poetry. His verses to his brother, in the glyconick measure, written when he was seventeen, are remarkably easy... 
