 | 1819 - 496 страница
...task well requires, not only extensive erudition, a strong memory, an acute and penetrating mind, but an acquaintance also, either self-taught or methodically...render a more acceptable service to the lovers of apcient learning, than by guiding their footsteps through this perplexing labyrinth. and to have the... | |
 | 1812 - 494 страница
...and to abstract ideas, to know them again under all the changes of dress and posture, and to keep n steady eye upon them, as -they mingle with the confused...their footsteps through this perplexing labyrinth. and to have the right use and play of these, imparts more of a native air and grace, is really a more... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 страница
...but there have been men so variously gifted, though few ; and some perhaps there still are : ONE 1 know there is, who could not render a more acceptable service to the lovers ot aucient learning, than by guiding their footsteps through this perplexing labyrinth." "When Cicero... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 страница
...but there have been men so variously gifted, ' though few ; and some perhaps there still are : ONE 1 know ' there is, who could not render a more acceptable...their footsteps * through this perplexing labyrinth.' " QThe extract is taken from A Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review against Oxford, containing... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1829 - 454 страница
...view, when at the close of some sentences most worthy of you as a scholar, and as a sage, you say " there have been men so variously gifted, though few,...their footsteps through this perplexing labyrinth." The two celebrated North Britons, whom I just now mentioned, are strongly impressed with language which... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 страница
...but there have been men so variously gifted, ' though few ; and some perhaps there still are : ONK 1 know * there is, who could not render a more acceptable...their footsteps ' through this perplexing labyrinth.' " QThe extract is taken from A Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review against Oxford, containing... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 страница
...combination of qualities is indeed rare : but there have been men so variously gifted, though law ; and some perhaps there still are ; One I know there...their footsteps through this perplexing labyrinth." anomaima, and (at I conceived) inexplicable extetisiim which it gives to the preposition nib to convey... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 504 страница
...rare; but there have been men so variously gifted, though few; and some perhaps there mill are; OBE I know there is, who could not render a more acceptable...their footsteps through this perplexing labyrinth," anomalous, and (as I conceived) inexplicable extension which it gives to the preposition suZ> to convey... | |
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Logic which enables us to sort, to discriminate, and to abstract ideas, to know them again under all the changes of dress and posture, and to keep a steady eye upon them, as they mingle with the confused and shifting crowd. This combination of qualities... 