 | Biography - 1836 - 300 pages
...heart, yet it would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world,...youth, and the variety of materials which his own inventions continually supplied to his thoughts, rendered him habitually inattentive to familiar objects... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1837 - 350 pages
...of human policy ; and the effects on his character, as might have been anticipated, were seen in the want of the proper qualifications for bustle and business....rendered him habitually inattentive to familiar objects, and to common occurrences ; and he frequently exhibited instances of absence, which have scarcely been... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...heart, yet it would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world,...youth, and the variety of materials which his own inventions continually supplied to his thoughts, rendered him habitually inattentive to familiar objects... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 604 pages
...heart, yet it would require a very SKilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world,...youth, and the variety of materials which his own inventions continually supplied to his thoughts, rendered him habitually inattentive to familiar objects... | |
 | 1842 - 524 pages
...not unfrequently exhibited instances of absence of mind. Dugald Stewart says : — * He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life.' His acts of private charity were on a scale much beyond what might have been expected from his fortune.... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 524 pages
...unfrcquently exhibited instances of absence of mind. Dugald Stewart says: — ' Hewas certainly not filled for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life.' His act» of private charity were on a scale much beyond what might have been expected from his fortune.... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...his heart, yet it would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public. He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world,...rendered him habitually inattentive to familiar objects and to common occurrences ; and he frequently exhibited instances of absence which have scarcely been... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Emotions - 1853 - 622 pages
...would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted tor the general commerce of the world, or for the business...rendered him habitually inattentive to familiar objects, and to common occurrences ; and he frequently exhibited instances of absence, which have scarcely been... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1853 - 616 pages
...require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted forthe general commerce of the world, or for the business...life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had beea occupied from his youth, aud the variety of materials which his own invention continually supplied... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...heart, yet it would require a very skilful pencil to present them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world,...rendered him habitually inattentive to familiar objects, and to common occurrences ; and he frequently exhibited instances of absence, which have scarcely been... | |
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He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had .been occupied from his youth, and the variety of materials which his own invention continually... 
