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" laid together in fo diftinct a method, that he could, with very little labour, write on any of them. He had more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may feem confiftent with fuch a laborious courfe of ftudy. Yet, as much as he was fet... "
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: ... Carefully Corrected, and ... - Page 261
by Gilbert Burnet - 1753
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Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of King ...

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1753 - 670 pages
...learning with the diligence with which he laid it in. He had many volumes of materials upon all fubjeds laid together in fo diftinct a method, that he could...his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may feem confident with fuch a laborious courfe of ftudy. Yet, as much as he was fet on learning, he had never...
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A new and general biographical dictionary, Volume 8

New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 660 pages
...learning with the diligence he " laid it in. He had many volumes of materials upon all «' fubjects, laid together in fo diftinct a method, that he '"..." He had more life in his imagination, and a truer judg" ment, than may feem confiftent with fuch a laborious " courfe of ftudy. Yet, as much as he was...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 8

Biography - 1762 - 668 pages
...he " laid it in. He had many volumes of materials upon all " fubje&s, laid together in fo diftindt a method, that he " could, with very little labour, write on any of them. " He had more Irfe in his imagination, and a truer judg- 1 " ment, than may feem confiftcnt with fuch a laborious...
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The Welsh nonconformists' memorial; or, Cambro-British biography. To which ...

William Richards - 1820 - 554 pages
...quite mastered it. He had many volumes of materials upon all subjects, laid together in so distinct a method, that he could with very little labour write...life in his imagination and a truer judgment than may seem consistent with such a laborious course of study. In his ministerial duties," he says, " he was...
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History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the First ..., Volume 1

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 644 pages
...all subjects laid together in so distinct a method, that he could with very little labour write pn any of them. He had more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious course of study". Yet, as much as he was set on learning, he...
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Lives, characters, and an address to posterity. Ed. by J.Jebb

Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 458 pages
...which he laid it in. He had many volumes of materials, upon all subjects, laid together, in so distinct a method, that he could, with very little labour,...in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious course of study.* Yet, much as he was set on learning, he never...
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Miscellanies of literature, by the author of 'Curiosities of literature'.

Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pages
...in folio. Lloyd is described by Burnet as having " many volumes of materials upon all subjects, so that he could, with very little labour, write on any of them, with more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious...
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Miscellanies of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...in folio. Lloyd is described by Burnet as having " many volumes of materials upon all subjects, so that he could, with very little labour, write on any of them, with more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious...
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Miscellanies of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1840 - 516 pages
...in folio. Lloyd is described by Burnet as having " many volumes of materials upon all subjects, so that he could, with very little labour, write on any of them, with more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious...
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Miscellanies of Literature

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1853 - 510 pages
...in folio. Lloyd is described by Burnet as having " many volumes of materials upon all subjects, so that he could, with very little labour, write on any of them, with more life in his imagination, and a tnier judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious...
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