 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather efleminacv, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. He also... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and I thiuk the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and av bible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. He also had, in som«... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...but he was also a g- od man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect...weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve t though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress that they had made in knowledge,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 pages
...without some speck, some imperfection; ami I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness,...that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congrevc: though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they hail made in knowledge,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...bwt he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect...disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet he could... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...But he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect...and disdain of his inferiors in science. He also had comparing it with the following passage of Hume, as quoted by Mr. D. Stewart in his Life of Reid, p.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...an affectation in deliv ^V ," cacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiv / v *•*' ousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors "' , •...that " weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in " Mr.Congreve : though he seemed to value others * " chiefly according to the progress that they had... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...without some speck, some imperfection ; anj 1 think the greatest defect in his was an affecution of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness,...science. He also had, in some degree, that weakness which di<gu>tec Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : thoiigr. he seemed to value others chiefly according •-:•... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminancy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. He... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character without some speck, some imperfection ; and"! think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminancy, and a visible fastidiousness, -or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. He... | |
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There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. 
