 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1785 - 518 pages
...proper, he frequently indulged himfelf in pleafantry and fpprtive falli&s. He was prone to fuperftition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might...incline him to a belief of the marvellous, and the myfterioaj, his vigorous reaion examined the evidence with jeaJouSy. He had a loud voice, and a flow... | |
 | Europe - 1785 - 522 pages
...proper, he frccuca;Iy mduiecd himlclf in pleafantry ;<nd Ipottive tallies. He wa' p'One to fuperftition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might...incline him to a belief of the marvellous, and the myftenous, his vigorous reafon examined tks evidence with jeaioufy. He had a loud voice, and a flow... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 546 pages
...the clouds of which darkened the bf ightnefs of his fancy, and gave a gloomy caft to his whole courfe of thinking : yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it neceflary or proper, he frequently indulged, himfelf in pleafantry and fportive fallies. He was prone... | |
 | English literature - 1785 - 680 pages
...the clouds of which darkened the brightness of hi» fancy, and gave a gloomy cad to his whole courfe of thinking ; yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necctfary or proptr, he frequently indulged himfelf in pleafantry and fportive failles. He was prone... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...proper, he frequently indulged himfelf in pleafantry and fportive fallies. He was prone to fuperftition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him, to a beliet of the maryellouS,i and the myfterious, his vigorous reafon examined the evidence with jealoufy.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1786 - 478 pages
...the clouds of which darkened the brightnefs of his fancy, and gave a gloomy caft to his whole courfe of thinking : yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necefTary or proper, — he frequently indulged himfelf in pleafantry and fportive fallies. He was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1787 - 608 pages
...the clouds of which darkened the brightnefs of his fancy, and gave a gloomy caft to his whole courfe of thinking : yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it neceflary or proper, — he .frequently indulged himfelf in pleafantry and fportive fallies. He was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...only in his manners, and in difplays of argument and fancy in his talk. He was prone to fuperftition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might...incline him to a. belief of the marvellous and the myfterious, his vigorous reafon examined the evidence with jealoufy. He was a fincere and zealous Chriftian,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1791 - 302 pages
...the clouds of which darkened the brightnefs of his fancy, and gave a gloomy caft to his whole courfe of thinking : yet though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it neceflary or proper, he frequently indulged himfelf in pleafantry and fportive fallies. He was prone... | |
 | 1792 - 640 pages
...only in his manners, and in difplays of argument and fancy in bis talk. He was prone to fuperllition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the myitenous, his vigorous reafon examined the evidence with jealoufy. He was a iincere and zealous Chriflian,... | |
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He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking. 
