His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied... Edinburgh and Country Croonings - الصفحة 121بواسطة James Lumsden - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 352عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...again. In " his eighty-second year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his " attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet, " as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you " would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...again. In " his eighty-second year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his " attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet, " as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you " would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles... | |
| Walter Scott - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...hear again. In his eighty-fifth year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have -said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 850
...shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-first year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention at every one's question, his information...with him on the origin of the alphabet, as if he had b•en coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said that the old man had... | |
| Samuel Dunn - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 1074
...purposes — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the kindest of human beings. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject....alphabet, as if he had been coeval with Cadmus. Another, a celebrated critic : jou would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...hear again. In his eighty-fifth year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...hear again. In his eighty-fifth year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...hear again. In his eighty-fifth year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another, a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...alert, kind, benevolent old man — surrounded by a little band of northern literati — " had his attention at every one's question, his information...alphabet, as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said that the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...again. . In his eighty-fifth year, fhe alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and *belles-lettres... | |
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