| Jonathan Edwards - 1831 - 636 pages
...generally known," says he, " besides others which my own heart is conscious of. I have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...weakness, and contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanour; with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much unfitting me for conversation, but more... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1832 - 168 pages
...generally known," says he, "besides others which my own 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... | |
| Jared Sparks - United States - 1837 - 404 pages
...generally known,' says he, ' besides others, which my own 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 stifihess, much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially... | |
| Religion - 1839 - 536 pages
...intercourse. In his singularly modest letter to the Trustees of Nassau Hall he says, " 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... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...intercourse. In his singularly modest letter to the Trustees of Nassau Hall he says, " I have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...contemptibleness of speech, presence and demeanor, with a disagreeable dulness arid stiffness ; much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially... | |
| Theology - 1839 - 1052 pages
...intercourse. In his singularly modest letter to the Trustees of Nassau Hall he says, " I have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and conteraptibleness of speech, presence and demeanor, with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness ; much... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 688 pages
...which are generally known ; besides other, which my own heart is conscious of. I have a constitution, in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and contemptilileness of speech, presence, and demeanor; with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much... | |
| James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...have a constitution, in many respects, peculiarly unhappy, attended with flaccid solids, vapidizing and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits; often...contemptibleness of speech, presence and demeanor, with a disagreeable dullness and stiffness, much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with flaccid solids, vapid, sizv, 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... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...acceptance of the post, enters curiously into the physiology of his condition : — " I have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with...vapid, sizy, and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirit«, often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and contemptibleness of speech, presence, and... | |
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