 | Charles C. Savage - 1856 - 624 頁
...learning, and he was as hospitable and as generous as any man. He was a person, as Clarendon has observed, whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. His learning was stupendous, and if he had some infirmities they were weighed down with wonderful and... | |
 | John Selden - 1856 - 324 頁
...capacity, in a manner at once perspicuous and agreeable. " He was a person (says his friend Lord Clarendon) whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of such stupendous learning in all kinds, and in all languages, that a man would have thought... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1857 - 656 頁
...company. He lived to be very old, and till the palsy made a deep impression upon his body and his mind. 27 Mr. Selden was a person whom no character can flatter,...in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds and in all languages, (as may appear in his excellent... | |
 | David Nutt - 1857 - 618 頁
...scripta, edidit D. Wilkins ; 6 vols. in 3, folio, portrait, calf, full gilt backs, £5 5s. Londini, 1726 " Selden was a person whom no character can flatter,...in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous a learning, in all kinds, and in all languages (as may appear in his excellent... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 448 頁
...death took place at Whitefriars, November 30, 1654. In the hearty words of the Earl of Clarendon : " Mr Selden was a person whom no character can flatter,...in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds, and in all languages (as may appear in his excellent... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 頁
...death took place at Whitefriars, November 30, 1654. In the hearty words of the Earl of Clarendon : " Mr Selden was a person whom no character can flatter,...in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds, and in all languages (as may appear in his excellent... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 頁
...death took place at Whitefriars, November 30, 1654. In the hearty words of the Earl of Clarendon : " Mr Selden was a person whom no character can flatter,...in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds, and in all languages (as may appear in his excellent... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 頁
...took place at Whitefriars, November 30, 1654. In the hearty words of the Earl of Clarendon : '•' Mr Selden was a person whom no character can flatter,...in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds, and in all languages (as may appear in his excellent... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 頁
...whom England has to boast. Selden's character has been drawn by Lord Clarendon as follows : — " He was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit...in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of such stupendous learning, in all kinds and in all languages, that a man would have thought... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 532 頁
...is no great praise, considering the age in which he lived. Whitelocke, his biographer, YVilkin-°, Baxter, and Clarendon, all bear testimony to the excellence...some time, he did, by the help of a strong body and u vast memory, not only run through the whole body of the law, but became a prodigy in most parts of... | |
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Mr Selden was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds, and in all languages (as may appear in his excellent and transcendent writings), that a... 
