 | 1880 - 818 頁
...something equally well fitting. Of Burton, the author of the ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' Wood writes : " I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church...his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1880 - 516 頁
...understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1881 - 808 頁
...understood the surveying of lauds welL As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of groat honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often... | |
 | 1883 - 1000 頁
...melancholy and humorous person: so by others who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of...his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile, and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourse... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1883 - 816 頁
...melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing Florence, wherein, some say, dwell ninety thousand...inhabitants, of which ten thousand are courtezans ; •His elder brother was William Burton, the Leicestershire antiquary, born 24th August, 1575, educate'!... | |
 | Halkett (i.e. Richard Halkatt Lord (ed.)) - 1883 - 602 頁
...understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person: so by others who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. 1 have heard some of the ancients of Clirist Church often say that his company... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1909 - 608 頁
...scholar : as he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humourous person, so by others who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity': such is Anthony Wood's verdict upon him. The figure in the portrait is... | |
 | 1886 - 458 頁
...understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing, and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say,' he continues,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 480 頁
...understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person, so by others who knew him well a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the antients of Christ Church often say that his company... | |
 | 1897 - 860 頁
...libraries, and as many of his books as they did not already possess. A monument was erected to his memory in Christ Church Cathedral. B. is described...plain-dealing, and charity. I have heard some of the ancient of Christ Church often say that his company was very merry, facetc, and juvenile.' His Anatomy... | |
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Wood's character of him is, that "he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,... 
