 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...his having a loud voice, and a slow deliberate utterance. In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary...dexterity, he could, when he pleased, be the greatest 1 Though a perfect resemblance of Johnson is not to be found in any age, parts of his character are... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...with peculiar perspicuity and force, in rich and choice expression. He united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary...reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. He could, when he chose it, be the greatest sophist that ever wielded a weapon in the schools of declamation,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...peculiar perspicuity and force, in rich and choice expression. He united a rnoet logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing; for he could rea*>n close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. He could, when he chose it, be the greatest sophist... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 pages
...his having a loud voice, and a slow deliberate utterance. In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary...be the greatest sophist that ever contended in the list of declamation ; and, from a spirit of contradiction, and a delight in showing his powers, he... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...his having a loud voice, and a slow deliberate utterance. In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary...for the moment Exulting in his intellectual strength «nd dexterity, he could, when he pleased, be the greatest sophist that ever contended in the list... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...with peculiar perspicuity and force, in rich and choice expression. He united a most logical head with e favoured me with the sight of, has given me such...congratulate the publick upon the acquisition of a w He could, when he chose it, be the greatest sophist that ever wielded a weapon in the schools of declamation,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...attention watched his lips, — he reasoned, and conviction closed his periods ; when he pleased, he could be the greatest sophist that ever contended in the lists of declamation ; and perhaps no man ever equalled him in nervous and pointed repartees. His veracity, from the most trivial... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...attention watched his lips, — he reasoned, and conviction closed his periods ; when he pleased, he could be the greatest sophist that ever contended in the lists of declamation ; and perhaps no man ever equalled him in nervous and pointed repartees. His veracity, from the most trivial... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...his having a loud voice, and a slow deliberate utterance. In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary...be the greatest sophist that ever contended in the hst of declamation ; and, from a spirit of contradiction, and a delight in showing his powers, he would... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...with peculiar perspicuity and force, in rich and choice expression. He united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary...reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. He could, when he chose it, be the greatest sophist that ever wielded a weapon in the schools of declamation,... | |
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In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. 
