 | James Hogg - Ballads, Scots - 1819 - 456 pages
...first appearance in the world to the satisfaction of all men. He was a man of good sense, improven by so much reading and learning, that perhaps he was the best accomplished young gentleman of quality in Europe, and had so charming a way of expressing his thoughts,... | |
 | George Baillie - 1842 - 240 pages
...good sense, improven by so much read" ing and learning, that perhaps he was the best accomplished " young man of quality in Europe, and had so charming...he pleased even those 'gainst whom " he spoke." And Sir David Dalrymple dwells with enthusiasm upon his " consummate merit, the elegance of his manners,... | |
 | George Baillie - England - 1842 - 244 pages
...good sense, improven by so much read" ing and learning, that perhaps he was the best accomplished " young man of quality in Europe, and had so charming...he pleased even those 'gainst whom " he spoke." And Sir David Dalrymple dwells with enthusiasm upon his " consummate merit, the elegance of his manners,... | |
 | William Law Mathieson - Scotland - 1905 - 430 pages
...and Lockhart, in a burst of reluctant admiration, describes him as " a man of good sense, improven by so much reading and learning, that perhaps he was the best accomplished young man of quality in Europe." 1 Indolence, or disinclination to continuous and detailed... | |
 | William Law Mathieson - Scotland - 1905 - 444 pages
...and Lockhart, in a burst of reluctant admiration, describes him as “a man of good sense, improven by so much reading and learning, that perhaps he was the best accomplished young man of quality in Europe.” Indolence, or disinclination to continuous and detailed... | |
 | Lady Grizel Baillie - Great Britain - 1911 - 586 pages
...learning that ¡«.-rhíp* he w»» :lr best accomplished young man of quality in Europe, and had to charming a way of expressing his thoughts that he pleased even those 'gainst whom be 4p-kt The Duchess of Roxburgh was said to be the original of the Roxana of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - Constitutional law - 1914 - 228 pages
...the very bane and cut-throat of his country', says of him that he was perhaps ' the best-accomplished young man of quality in Europe, and had so charming...expressing his thoughts that he pleased even those against whom he spoke'. Both in the present session and in the momentous one that was to follow, the... | |
 | Scottish History Society - Scotland - 1911 - 592 pages
...the ' Squadrone Volante." Lockhart describes him as follows: ' He was a man of good sense improven by so much reading and learning that perhaps he was the best accomplished young man of quality in Europe, and had so charming a way of expressing his thoughts that... | |
 | Christopher Christie - Architecture - 2000 - 374 pages
...employ William Adam at Floors Castle in Roxburghshire, that he was ‘a Man of good sense improved by so much Reading and Learning, That perhaps, he was the best Accomplished young Man of Quality in Europe. . ¿‘¿0 Gradually, as descriptions of houses and estates... | |
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