 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...thgm not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character make? them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their own character makes them uuwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 416 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled." f The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled." f The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled." f The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten,... | |
 | William Draper - 1830 - 44 pages
...till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes thenvunwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."" The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends may be partly... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends maybe partly... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them,...has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends may be partly... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them_unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends may be partly... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them_unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."" The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends may be partly... | |
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There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to... 
