 You must know, then, that from my earliest infancy I found always a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little further than the languages, ends commonly when we are about fourteen or fifteen years of...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 71847Full view - About this book
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 pages
...know then that, from my earliest infancy, I found always a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little...incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 604 pages
...know then that, from my earliest infancy, I found always a strong inclination to hooks and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little...incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 614 pages
...know then that, from my earliest infancy, I found always a strong inclination to hooks and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little...incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pages
...strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little farther than the languages, ends commonly when we are about...incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1846 - 606 pages
...know then that, from my earliest infancy, I found always a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little...after that left to my own choice in my reading, and fuund it incline me almost equally to hooks of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1846 - 682 pages
...books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little furtlier than the language!), ends commonly when we are about fourteen or fifteen...it incline me almost equally to books of reasoning anil philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the... | |
 | Christianity - 1847 - 566 pages
...must know that, from my earliest infancy, I found always a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little...incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pages
...You must know that from my earliest infancy, I found a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little...and found it incline me almost equally to books of learning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted with either,... | |
 | Eugene Lawrence - Historians - 1855 - 390 pages
...continues, " that from my earliest infancy I found always a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little...left to my own choice in my reading, and found it almost equally incline me to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and polite authors. Every... | |
 | Edward Tagart - Hume, David, 1711-1776 - 1855 - 530 pages
...boldness of his temper. The first part is as follows : — " After fourteen or fifteeen years of age I was left to my own choice in my reading, and found it...incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers... | |
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