 | 1800 - 830 pages
...thing that indicated forwardnefs, arrogance, or vanity. He took his (hare in converfatkm, but not more than belonged to him, and liftened with apparent attention and deference, on fubjects where hi* want of education deprived bim of the means of information. It dure bad been a little more of gemienef»... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...but npt more than belonged to him ; and listened with apparent attention and deference, on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in his temper, he would, I think, have... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...but not more than belonged to him ; and listened, with apparent attention and deference, on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in his temper, he would, I think, have... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...but not more than belonged to him ; and listened, with apparent attention and deference, on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in bis temper, he would, I think, have... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pages
...but not more than belonged to him ; and listened, with apparent attention and deference, on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in his temper, he would, I think, have... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 pages
...conversation, but not more than belonged to him, and listened with apparent attention and deference on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in his temper he would, I think, have... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...but not more than belonged to him ; and listened, with apparent attention and deference, on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in his temper, he would, I think, have... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...conversation, but not more than belonged to him; and listened with apparent attention and deference on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in his temper, he would, I think, have... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...in conversation, but not more than belonged to him, and listened with apparent deference on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more of gentleness and accommodation in his temper, he would have been still... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...but not more than belonged to him; and listened with apparent attention and deference, on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. If there had been a little more gentleness and accommodation in his temper, he would, I think, have... | |
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... that indicated forwardness, arrogance, or vanity. He took his share in conversation, but not more than belonged to him ; and listened with apparent attention and deference on subjects where his want of education deprived him of the means of information. 
