 | Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...no distinct traces in the preceding narrative. , Of his intellectual character, the distinguishing and fundamental principle was good sense ; a prompt and intuitive perception of truth, both upon those questions In which certainty is attainable, and those which must be determined... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...opportunity to gratify it, did not leave him till his life declined. Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good...intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...opportunity to gratify it, did not leave him till his life declined. Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good...intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...opportunity -to gratify it, did not leave him till his life declined. Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good...intuitive perception of consonance and propriety.. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...opjxjrtunity to gratify it, did not leave him till his life declined. Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good...intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of Ins own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected , and, in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...opportunity to gratify it, did not leave him till his life declined. Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good...intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...opportunity to gratify it, did not leave him till his life declined. Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good...intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in... | |
 | Science - 1815 - 520 pages
...are no distinct traces in the preceding narrative. Of his intellectual character, the distinguishing and fundamental principle was good sense; a prompt and intuitive perception of truth, both upon tho'se questions in which certainty is attainable, and those which must be determined... | |
 | Science - 1815 - 514 pages
...are no distinct traces in the preceding narrative. Of his intellectual character, the distinguishing and fundamental principle was good sense; a prompt and intuitive perception of truth, both upon those questions in which certainty is attainable, and those which must be determined... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...opportunity to gratify it, did not leave him till his life declined. Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was good...intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in... | |
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Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good Sense, a prompt and intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in... 
