 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 448 pages
...first great metaphysical writer born in America, says of himself that he "possessed a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanor." Perhaps it was the reaction of his extraordinary intellect against this physical organization which... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - English literature - 1904 - 404 pages
...popular with the rising generation. He had, as he confesses with his usual candour, a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...kind of .childish weakness and contemptibleness of speecnT presence and demeanour ; with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much unfitting me for conversation,... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - Williamstown (Mass.) - 1904 - 896 pages
...which are generally known ; besides others, of which my own heart is conscious. I have a constitution, In many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with flaccid solids, vapid, sizy and scarce fluids, nnd a low tide of spirits ; often occa— j stoning a kind of childish weakness and contemptibleness... | |
 | Andrew Macphail - Biography - 1905 - 358 pages
...poetical, that would be a cryptic saying, in face of his own declaration that lie had " a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...weakness and contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanour." These are commonly regarded as the ingredients of a philosopher or theologian, but poets... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - 1907 - 602 pages
...have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with flaccid solids, vapid, fizy, and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits; often...contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanor; with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...knowest my circumstances. — WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, 1740, Diary, The Great Awakening. I have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and contemptiblenesa of speech, presence, and demeanor, with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1904 - 1036 pages
...Alas ! for Edwards and for Herder; such ecstasies may not endure in feeble frames. Edwards bemoaned "a low tide of spirits ; often occasioning a kind...of childish weakness and contemptibleness of speech . . . much unfitting me for conversation," and Herder's sublimity of thought failed to tranquilize... | |
 | Varnum Lansing Collins - 1914 - 464 pages
...of which are generally known; be«ddes other, which my heart is conscious of. I have a constitution, in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...contemptibleness of speech, presence and demeanor ; with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially... | |
 | Bp. Eugene Russell Hendrix - Christianity - 1916 - 230 pages
...concerning some of his constitutional peculiarities which unfitted him for such responsible work, saying, "A low tide of spirits often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and contemptibleness of speech and behavior, with a disagreeable dullness, much unfit me for conversation, but more especially for... | |
 | Edwin Mark Norris - Princeton University - 1917 - 324 pages
...author of "The Freedom of the Will" is shown in his letter to the trustees : ' "I have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanor, with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially... | |
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I have a constitution, in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with flaccid solids, vapid, sizy and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits ; often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanor,... 
