 | 1808 - 732 pages
...perity, did-not produce or diffufe more happincfs, was his living a ftranger to the comforts of domeftic life, from which unhappy connexions excluded him. Tavern company, and bachelor circles, make men grofs, callous, and awkward ; in (hort, difqualii'y them for fuperior female fociety. The more heart... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. Mis religious principles were, 1 fear, unfixed and fluctuating; but the primary cause...happiness was his living a stranger to the comforts of domestick life, from which unhappy connexions excluded him. Tavern company, and bachelor circles make... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...tender and interesting than flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating...taste, benevolence, and prosperity, did not produce or "diffusemore happiness was his living a stranger to the comforts of domestiek life, from which unhappy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 540 pages
...tender and interesting than flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating...life, from which unhappy connexions excluded him, &c." He appears to have died in very opulent circumstances, and by his will, dated June 1793, gave... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...tender and interesting than flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating...prosperity, did not produce or diffuse more happiness, was bis living a stranger to the comforts of domestic life, fromwhich unhappy connexions excluded him,... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...tender and interesting than flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating;...taste, benevolence, and prosperity, did not produce or difl'use more happiness, was his living a stranger to the comforts of domestic life, from which unhappy... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...tender and interesting than flasby or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good : his religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating...stranger to the comforts of domestic life, from which unbappy connexions excluded him." By his will, dated in June, 1793, after distributing among his_relatives... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...tender and interesting than flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating...life, from which unhappy connexions excluded him, &c." He appears to have died in very opulent circumstances, and by his will, dated June, 1793, gave... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...tender and interesting than flashy and ostentatious. His heart and temper where originally good. His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating ; but the primary cause that to much genius, taste, benevolence, and prosperity did not produce or diffuse more happiness, was his... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 508 pages
...indulgent landlord, and very kind to the poor. Mrs. Anne Grant, a near neighbor, wrote of him, " His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating;...the comforts of domestic life, from which unhappy connections excluded him." He died in 1796 at the age of sixty years. It is rather curious to note... | |
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... of late a great inclination to be an indulgent landlord, and very liberal to the poor, of which I could relate various instances, more tender and interesting than flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. His religious principles... 
