 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...ignorantly answered, or more uninstructively commended. It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his...the discursive or comprehensive understanding. This wide-ranging intellect was illuminated by the brightest fancy that ever contented itself with the office... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...ignorantly answered, or more uninstructively commended. It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his...the discursive or comprehensive understanding. This wide-ranging intellect was illuminated by the brightest fancy that ever contented itself with the office... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 402 pages
...ignorantly answered, or more uninstructively commended. It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his...the discursive or comprehensive understanding. This wide-ranging intellect was illuminated by the brightest fancy that ever contented itself with the office... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pages
...ignorantly censured, or more uninstructively commended. It is easy to describe his transcendant merit v 18 U=N7F Oc Py*;UOPH B Q R q 7 B ...r@ >`&g" ( ȁ̫ uy כ D RDe:Ʉ ~0 b - I {X \ wide-ranging Intellect was illuminated by the brightest Fancy that ever contented itself with the office... | |
 | Thomas Croswell Reed - 1837 - 96 pages
...by the even and useful tenor of his life. Sir James Mclntosh has said of Bacon, that " the quality in which he most excelled all other men^ was in the...intellectual view — the power of contemplating many and distinct objects together, without indistinctness or confusion. This wide-ranging Intellect was illuminated... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 pages
...ignorantly censured, or more uninstructively commended. It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his...that in which he most excelled all other men, was the range and compass of his intellectual vie wand the power of contemplating many and distant objects... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 pages
...ignorantly censured, or more uninstructively commended. It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation; for some of his...that in which he most excelled all other men, was the range and compass of his intellectual view and the power ol contemplating many and distant objects... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pages
...ignorantly censured, or more uninstructively commended. It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation; for some of his...that in which he most excelled all other men, was the range and compass of his in" ' • ' " " ' >latLOUt hich he himself has called the " discursive"... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...the opinion of this elegant writer in his own words. " It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation : for some of his...the discursive or comprehensive understanding. This wide-ranging intellect was illuminated by the brightest Fancy that ever contented itself with the ofDce... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1851 - 854 pages
...that in which he most excelled all other men, was the range and compass of his intellectual view and the power of contemplating many and distant objects...comprehensive" understanding. This wide ranging intellect * Advancement of Learning, book ii. was illuminated by the brightest Fancy that ever contented itself... | |
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It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his great qualities lie on the surface of his writings. But that in which he most excelled all other men was in the range and compass of his intellectual view... 
