 | James Hamilton - Christian literature - 1859 - 440 pages
...Perhaps the best sketch of James's character is from the friendly pen of Sir Walter Scott :— " He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge...tamely saw them trampled on in deeds ; a lover of negociations, in which he was always outwitted, and a fearer of war, where conquest might have been... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature - 1859 - 444 pages
...Perhaps the best sketch of James's character is from the friendly pen of Sir Walter Scott :— " He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge...tamely saw them trampled on in deeds ; a lover of negociations, in which he was always outwitted, and a fearer of war, where conquest might have been... | |
 | Christian classics, James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1859 - 786 pages
...Perhaps the best sketch of James's character is from the friendly pen of Sir Walter Scott :— " He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge...many individual cases, without having real wisdom ; foud of hia power, and desirous to maintain and augment it, yet willing to resign the direction of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1861 - 316 pages
...subject of donbt amongst his contemporaries, and bequeathed as a problem to future historians. He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge;...direction of that, and of himself, to the most unworthy favorites; a big and bold assertor of his rights in words, yet one who tamely saw them trampled on... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...admirably drawn by Sir Walter Scott, in the ' Fortunes of Nigel,' especially in Chapter V. — ' He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge;...direction of that, and of himself, to the most unworthy favorites; a big and bold asserter of his rights in words, yet one who tamely saw them trampled on... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Demonology - 1870 - 434 pages
...lubjeot of ilmilic amongst his contemporaries, and bequeathed as a problem to future historians. He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge...it, yet willing to resign the direction of that, and ot himself, to the most unworthy favourites ; a big and bold assertor of his *ights in words, yet one... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 pages
...C HA RA CTE ES. CHARACTER OF JAMES I.— HIS INCONSISTENCY. " Nil aquale homini fuit illi." HE was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge...most unworthy favourites ; a big and bold assertor of Ms rights in words, yet one who tamely saw them trampled on in deeds ; a lover of negotiations, in... | |
 | James Wills - 1875 - 760 pages
...elaborate description of Scott, " deeply learned without possessing useful knowledge ; sagacious in many cases without having real wisdom ; fond of his power, and desirous to retain and augment it, yet willing to resign the direction of that power and of himself to the most... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1876 - 796 pages
...than which there can be no higher praise. The following is an extract from that work: — ' He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge...himself, to the most unworthy favourites ; a big and bold asserter of his rights in words, yet one who tamely saw them trampled on in deeds ; a lover of négociations,... | |
 | James Wills - Ireland - 1876 - 752 pages
...elaborate description of Scott, " deeply learned without possessing useful knowledge ; sagacious in many cases without having real wisdom ; fond of his power, and desirous to retain and augment it, yet willing to resign the direction of that power and of himself to the most... | |
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He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge; sagacious in many individual cases, without having real wisdom ; fond of his power, and desirous to maintain and augment it, yet willing to resign the direction of that and of himself, to the... 
