 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 頁
...understood the surveying of lands welt. As he was by many accounted a revere 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 Christchurch often say that his memory... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 788 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...say, that his company was very merry, facete, and * HU elder brother was William Burton, the Leicestershire antiquary, born 24th August, 1575, cdncateil... | |
 | 1861 - 996 頁
...him is somewhat contradictory ; "as he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourerof 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 Christchurch often say that his company... | |
 | 1861 - 830 頁
...is somewhat contradictory ; " 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 Christchurch often say that... | |
 | 156 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. The Greek sage, whom he appears to have taken as his "guide, *0n Obscure... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 頁
...understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, onth. It even asserts that— A cold April The barn...is welcomed : An April flood Carries away the frog nave heard some of the ancients of Christ Church say, that his company was very merry, facete, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 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...person of great honesty, plaindealing, and charity. I nave heard some of the ancients of Christ Church say, that his company was very merry, facete, ana... | |
 | 1879 - 876 頁
...a thorough-paced philologist. " As he was by many accounted a severe student, and a melancholy ami humorous person, so by others who knew him well, a...some of the ancients of Christ Church often say that bin company was very merry, facete, and juvenile." His "Anatomy of Melancholy," in which he appears... | |
 | George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - 1880 - 264 頁
...dabbler in nativities, a well-read scholar, and a thorough-paced philologist ; and declares that " he was by many accounted a severe student, and a melancholy...great honesty, plain-dealing and charity. I have heard " says the old gossip, " some of the ancients of Christ's Church often say that his company was very... | |
 | 1880 - 812 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...that 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... | |
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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,... 
