 | Books - 1831 - 660 pages
...very wisely. I knew personally, and well, both Mr. Hume and Mr. Gray, and thought there was no degree of comparison between their understandings ; and,...writings were so superior to his conversation, that 1 frequently said he understood nothing till he had written upon H. What you say, Sir, of the discord... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...easy to adduce a number of striking exceptions*. But this article is already too long, and I must * " Mr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation,...he understood nothing till he had written upon it." — Hnrart II alpalt. "If I am obliged to speak I infallibly talk nonsense, \\hatustill worse, instead... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...easy to adduce a number of striking exceptions*. But this article is already too long, and I must * " Mr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation,...he understood nothing till he had written upon it." — Horace \\ alpole. '•"If I am obliged to speak I infallibly talk nonsense. What is still worse,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...easy to adduce a number of striking exceptions*. But this article is already too long, and I must * " Mr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation,...said he understood nothing till he had written upon it."—Horace Walpole. "If I am obliged to speak I infallibly talk nonsense. What is still worse, instead... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 866 pages
...Walpole's opinion of books in great libraries. 68. His remarks on Pinkertonian English. 70. Horace Walpole. "Mr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation,...he understood nothing till he had written upon it." 71. Horace Walpole. Grace and style. 83. Trcmayne, my correspondent, " valde suspicor :" for there... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 918 pages
...opinion of books in great libraries. 68. His remarks on Pinkertonian English. 70. Horace Walpole. "Jlr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation,...he understood nothing till he had written upon it." 71. Horace Walpole. Grace and style. 83. Tremayne, my correspondent, " valde suspicor :" for there... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 860 pages
...opinion of books in great libraries. 68. His remarks on Pinkerlonian English. 70. Horace Walpole. " Mr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation, that I frequently said he understood nothing lili he had written upon it." 71. Horace Wulpole. Grace and slyle. 83. Tremayne, my correspondent "... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 500 pages
...Langton's Collection. Horace Walpole (Letters, viii. 560), who ' knew Hume personally and well,' said, ' Mr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation,...he understood nothing till he had written upon it.' ' The age of great English historians had not long begun. The first volume of The Decline and Fall... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1891 - 652 pages
...very wisely. I knew personally and well both Mr. Hume and Mr. Gray, and thought there was no degree of comparison between their understandings; and, in...from his love of prerogative and hatred of churchmen, natters me much; as I have taken notice of that very unnatural discord in a piece I printed some years... | |
 | Paul Langford - History - 2000 - 402 pages
...suggest that he was very good at practising his own precepts.116 Nor does Horace Walpole's remark that 'Mr. Hume's writings were so superior to his conversation,...said he understood nothing till he had written upon it.'117 Where justification failed, mitigation was attempted. Much attention was paid to the relationship... | |
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I should suspect that a man, who, sitting coolly in his chamber, could forge but a weak apology for the prerogative, would not have exercised it very wisely. I knew personally and well both Mr. Hume and Mr. Gray, and thought there was no decree of comparison... 