 | John Henry Newman - 1905 - 566 pages
...things up to their first principles, or of collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultiyation ; he hates the pain of thinking, and suspects every man whose boldness and originality... | |
 | 1913 - 408 pages
...twenty-three or twenty-four is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation;... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 134 pages
...twenty-three or twenty-four is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation;... | |
 | Richard Lawrence Archer - 1921 - 388 pages
...feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original enquiry he has none; nor has he formed the invaluable habit...to their first principles, or of collecting dry and uninteresting facts as material of reasoning. He hates the pain of thinking and suspects every man... | |
 | Richard Lawrence Archer - 1921 - 388 pages
...twentyfour years of age is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original enquiry he has none; nor has he formed the invaluable habit of pushing things up to their first principles,... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1925 - 562 pages
...twenty-three or twenty-four is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents...formed the invaluable habit of pushing things up to tlieir first principles, or of collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All... | |
 | John Henry Cardinal Newman - 1999 - 508 pages
...conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good.Talents for speculation and original inquiry he has none,...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation;... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2005 - 281 pages
...twenty-three or twenty-four is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of Ms understanding are left wholly without cultivation;... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 208 pages
...twenty-three or twenty-four is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents...collecting dry and unamusing facts as the materials for reasoning. All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding are left wholly without cultivation... | |
 | Michael G. Brock, Mark C. Curthoys - 1997 - 886 pages
...classical scholar of a3 or a4 years of age is a man principally conversant with works of imagination ... All the solid and masculine parts of his understanding...without cultivation; he hates the pain of thinking.' Underlying all this was the issue discussed in Chapter i. In i809 Oxford's clerical fellows were intent... | |
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The matter of fact is, that a classical scholar of twenty-three or twenty-four is a man principally conversant with works of imagination. His feelings are quick, his fancy lively, and his taste good. Talents for speculation and original inquiry he has... 
