 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 320 pages
...belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church...questioned ; and had, perhaps, at an early period, narrowed hi8 mind somewhat too much, both as to religion and politics. His being impressed with the danger of... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him. Let my readers, then, remember that he was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high church...which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of piety and virtue, both from a regard to the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him. Let my readers, then, remember that he was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high church...which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; steady and inflexible in maintainiug the obligations of piety and virtue, both from a regard to the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 pages
...examined the evidence with jealousy. He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church-of-England and monarchical principles, which he would not tamely...his mind somewhat too much, both as to religion and politicks. His being impressed with the danger of extreme latitude in either, though he was of a very... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of High-Church of England and monarchical principles, which he would...politics. His being impressed with the danger of extreme latitude in either, though he was of a very independent spirit, occasioned his appearing somewhat unfavorable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church...politics. His being impressed with the danger of extreme latitude in either, though he was of a very independent spirit, occasioned his appearing somewhat unfavourable... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 544 pages
...yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him. Let my readers, then, remember that he was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church...which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of piety 1 TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. "Newcastle,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 814 pages
...yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him. Let my readers, then, remember that he was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church...which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of piety TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. " Newcastle,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 454 pages
...yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him. Let my readers, then, remember that he was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church...which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of piety and virtue, both from a regard to the... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 424 pages
...; yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him. Let my readers then remember that he was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high church of England and monarchial principles, which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; steady and inflexible in... | |
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He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church... 
