licealista33
29.12.04, 00:04
".. he was deeply learned, without posessing useful knowledge; sagacious in
many individual cases, without having real wisdom.... He was fond of his
dignity, while he was perpetually degrading it by undue familiarity; capable
of much public labor, yet often neglecting it for the meanest amusement; a
wit though a pedant; and a scholar, though fond of the conversation of the
ignorant and uneducated... He was laborious in trifles and a trifler where
serious labor was required; devout in his sentiments, and yet too often
profane in his language..."
