There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to... Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 166by Dugald Stewart - 1821Full view - About this book
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled." f The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled." f The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten,... | |
| William Draper - 1830 - 44 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and ' whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...; or whose attention to their own character makes thenvunwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."" The light... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends maybe partly gathered,... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; w hosi; bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers...not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends may be partly gathered,... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...; or whose attention to their own character makes them_unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...; or whose attention to their own character makes them_unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."" The light... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking i» past; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulncss restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
| Robert Bell - 1839 - 430 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak until the time of speaking is past ; or, whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling... | |
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