 Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family to fear for; but descending from the contemplation of wisdom, and abandoning the ornaments of fancy, he humanely undertook the task of conveying duty and instruction...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 881892Full view - About this book
 | Ireland - 1926 - 418 pages
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 | Henry Grattan - Politicians - 1839 - 488 pages
...kingdom must bear witness of its effect, by the reception they gave it. Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family...and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him, by his works, to be a philosopher... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1839 - 480 pages
...kingdom must bear witness of its effect, by the reception they gave it. Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family...and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him, by his works, to be a philosopher... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Politicians - 1839 - 480 pages
...kingdom must bear witness of its effect, by the reception they gave it. Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family...and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him, by his works, to be a philosopher... | |
 | William Bullen (solicitor.) - 1843 - 152 pages
...eminent service to his country in the hour of the greatest danger. * * * Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake — no family to fear for ; but descending from the contemplations of wisdom, and abandoning the ornaments of fancy, he humanely undertook the task of... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 890 pages
...eminent service to his country in the hour of its greatest danger. . . . Poor in everything but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family...; but descending from the contemplation of wisdom, 1 One by England in 1822, and another by Buckley published as late aa 18G7. J Fronde, The English in... | |
 | Michael Bernard Buckley - 1868 - 436 pages
...brethren, best can tell, for many of you have witnessed his godlike labors. You can tell how, condescending from the contemplation of wisdom, and abandoning the ornaments of fancy, he became all to all, in order the more effectually to convey duty and instruction to the most ignorant... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - Judges - 1870 - 654 pages
...bear ._! , — _ witness of its effect, by the reception they gave it. Poor in everything but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family...and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him by his works to be a philosopher... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1872 - 246 pages
...kingdom must bear witness to its effect, by the reception they gave it. Poor in everything but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family...and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him (continued Mr. Grattan) to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him by... | |
 | William Dool Killen - Christianity - 1875 - 668 pages
...by the reception they gave it. Poor in everything but genius and philosophy, he had no property to stake, no family to fear for ; but, descending from...conveying duty and instruction to the lowest class of people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman,1 I should suppose him by his works to be... | |
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