 No subject ever came amiss to him. He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art, for which Locke was famous, of leading people to talk on their favourite subjects, and on what they knew...  The London Magazine Enlarged and Improved - Page 3421785Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...has often stood still, while his visitors were delighted and iustructed. No subject ever came amiss to him. He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art, for which Locke was famous, of leading people to talk... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...has often stood still, while his visitors were delighted and instructed. No subject ever came amiss to him. He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art, for which Locke was famous, of leadingpeopleto talk of... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pages
...has often stood still, while his visitors were djjighted and instructed. No subject ever came amiss to him. He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art, for which Locke was famous, of leading people to talk... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...press has often stood still. His visitors were delighted and instructed. No subject ever came amiss to him. He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art, for which Locke was famous, of leading people to talk... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 pages
...press has often stood still. His visitors were delighted and instructed. No subject ever came amiss to him. He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art, for which Locke was famous, of leading people to talk... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 pages
...subject ever came amiss to him. He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art, for which...famous, of leading people to talk on their favourite subjects, and on what they knew best 2. By this he acquired a great deal of information. What he once... | |
 | 1923 - 896 pages
...writers. But he was ready for almost any topic. " No subject ever came amiss to him," wrote Tom Tyers. " He could transfer his thoughts from one thing to another with the most accommodating facility. He had the art of leading people to talk on their favourite subjects,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...conversational talents of good talking combined with good listening, "the art," as Thomas Tyers remarks, "for which Locke was famous of leading people to talk on their favourite subjects, and on what they knew best. By this [Johnson] acquired a great deal of information. What... | |
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