 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...add to what the foregoing pages contain with respect to his character. Its most prominent features were, intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; a pure and...; and an entire command, acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life, over all his passions. Hence, in those parts of his writings where his subject... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...add to what the foregoing pages contain with respect to his character. Its most prominent features were, intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; a pure and...; and an entire command, acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life, over all his passions. Hence, in those parts of his writings where his subject... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...thought what I have done." The most prominent features of Dr Reid's character, says his biographer, " were, — intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; —...— and an entire command (acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life) over all his passions. Hence, in those parts of his writings where his subject... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...add to what the foregoing pages contain with respect to his character. Its most prominent features were, intrepid and inflexible rectitude, a pure and...truth, and an entire command (acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life) over all his passions. Hence, in those parts of his writings where hia subject... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pages
...thought what I have done." The most prominent features of Dr Reid's character, says his biographer, " were, — intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; —...— and an entire command (acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life) over all his passions. Hence, in those parts of his writings where his subject... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...add to what the foregoing pages contain with respect to his character. Its most prominent features were, — intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; —...— and an entire command (acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life) over all his passions. Hence, in those parts of his writings where his subject... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 368 pages
...tho particulars of it in the words with which he commences. " Its most prominent features veré — intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; — a pure and...— and an entire command (acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life) over all his passions." RENNIE, JOHN, a celebrated civil engineer, was the... | |
 | John Strang - 1856 - 622 pages
...eminent and excellent man, sums it up in these words:—'' Its most prominent features were—intrepid and inflexible rectitude, a pure and devoted attachment to truth, and an entire command over all his passions." Professor John Millar was born in 1735 at Shotts, and was educated at Hamilton... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pages
...thought what I have done." The most prominent features of Dr Reid's character, says his biographer, " were, — intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; —...— and an entire command (acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life) over all his passions. Hence, in those parts of his writings where his subject... | |
 | Andrew Wallace - 1889 - 296 pages
...in summing up the character of this eminent and excellent man, says : " Its most prominent features were — intrepid and inflexible rectitude, a pure...the unwearied exertion of a long life) over all his passions." Dr. Reid was under the middle size, but had great muscular strength, and was addicted to... | |
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Its most prominent features were, — intrepid and inflexible rectitude ; — a pure and devoted attachment to truth ; — and an entire command (acquired by the unwearied exertions of a long life) over all his passions. 
