 | Great Britain - 1885 - 492 pages
...Pope's famous attribution to him of ' every virtue under heaven ' (Epilogue to Satire*, ii. 78). ' So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the fashion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman,' was Atterbury's exclamation after being introduced... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idealism - 1885 - 396 pages
...every virtue under heaven — how Atterbury exclaimed, that till he knew him he did not think that so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, had been the portion of any but the angels. The range of his intellectual accomplishments was almost... | |
 | John Thomas Ball - Ireland - 1886 - 386 pages
...— in a few pregnant words that need no addition : ..." So much understanding, so much innocence, such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, until I saw this gentleman." Berkeley had been a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and was thence... | |
 | Robert Steel - Biography - 1890 - 680 pages
...It might well be said of him, as Bishop Atterbury said of Bishop Berkeley : " So much understanding so much innocence, and such humility I did not think had been the portion of any but angels." GEORGE WHITEFIELD (1714-1770) was born at Gloucester, England, and was educated at Oxford. He was ordained... | |
 | Medicine - 1892 - 656 pages
...which they have not been exercised." Great and good Bishop Berkeley, of whom even a carping writer said, " So much understanding, so much knowledge,...not think had been the portion of any but angels," discovered that precious fluid, " tar water," which he recommended for averting and curing all manner... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1893 - 120 pages
...Bishop Atterbury said of him: 'So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and so much humility I did not think had been the portion of any but angels until I saw this gentleman.' Pope's lines are well known: ' Manners with candor are to Benson given,... | |
 | Christian union - 1892 - 460 pages
...success. He left behind him to the American Continent the inestimable legacy of a blamelessexample. "So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...not think had been the portion of any but angels," said Atterbury, " until I saw this gentleman." His prescience is proved by his famous prophecy, now... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 590 pages
...interrogated as to how he liked him. Atterbury, it is said, lifted up his hands in astonishment and replied: "So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...did not think had been the portion of any but angels until I saw this gentleman." He now met Addison and Steele and Pope also. In November of the same year... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 1172 pages
...praise,. Kven the discerning, fastidious, and turbulent Atterbury Raid, after nn interview with him, *So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been tho portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.' . . . Of theexqnislt* grace and beauty of... | |
 | Local history - 1838 - 280 pages
...in him a character of high and attractive excellence. The learned Bishop Atterbury said of him : " So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much...not think had been the portion of any but angels, until I saw this gentleman." Pope, who, as a friend, knew him well, describes him as possessed of "... | |
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So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels until I saw this gentleman. 
