 | Edward Mahon Roose - 1842 - 476 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." The " Anatomy of Melancholy " is a work of immense erudition ; and several... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1847 - 616 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... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1847 - 702 頁
...the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, * 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... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 528 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... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 532 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... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 674 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...often say, that his company was very merry, facete, arid juvenile; * His elder brother was William Burton, the Leicestershire antiquary, born 24th August,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 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... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 526 頁
...the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, s 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... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 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...plain-dealing, and charity. I have heard some of the autients of Ch. Ch. often say that his company was very merry, lacete, and juvenile, and no man in... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 頁
...well 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. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his... | |
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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,... 
