 | 1882 - 870 страници
...national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed — and such, still more certainly, as no I man of great original power ever before possessed...subservience to the purposes of inventive genius." That we call fine writing, in the highest sense : original impressions are conveyed in eloquent diction,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 388 страници
...individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed — and such, still more...warlike as well as of peaceful times find their securest dwelling-place — or in more equal converse with the relics of that old school of Scottish cavaliers,... | |
 | 1820 - 496 страници
...individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic.individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed ; and such, still more certainly as, no man ol great original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 страници
...national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed; and such, still more certainly, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was any physiognomy treated with more scanty justice by the portrait painters ; and yet, after... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 628 страници
...individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed ; and such, still more certainly, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 616 страници
...individual traits and aneedotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed; and such, still more certainly, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subserv,ence to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 страници
...idual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no mau ever before possessed ; and such, still more certainly, as no man of origin»! power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was... | |
 | 1882 - 844 страници
...serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever 2I4 THE HEROES OF THE 21S before possessed — and such, still more certainly,...subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. That we call fine writing, in the highest sense: original impressions are conveyed in eloquent diction,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 624 страници
...individual traita and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed; and such, still more certainly, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 страници
...national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed; and such, still more certainty, as no man of original power ever before possessed, in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius. Never was any physiognomy treated with more scanty justice by the portrait painters ; and yet, after... | |
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... chief charm ; the most keen perception, the most tenacious memory, and the most brilliant imagination, having been at work throughout the whole of his busy life, in filling his mind with a store of individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic,... 
