...moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, that his mind first awoke. ' His lectures were to me like the opening of the heavens. I felt that I had...a higher world. I was as much excited and charmed TOL. CLXIX. NO. CCCXLVI. CC as any man of cultivated taste would be, who, after being ignorant of their...

...spitting. 'Then,' said he, ' I am glad there was at least one thing in which I had no competitor.' * * * To me his lectures were like the opening of the heavens...glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world. One of the debating societies existing in Edinburgh in the youth of Henry Cockburn, was the Academical...

...'Then,' said he, 'I am glad that there was at least one thing in which I had no competitor.' . . . To me his lectures were like the opening of the heavens; ¡ I felt that I had a soul. His noble viuws, unfolded in i glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world."5 У iíírarg Harvard Coïlfge...

...there was at least one thing in which I hail no competitor.' . . . Tome his lectures were like t he opening of the heavens; I felt that I had a soul. His noble views, unfolded la glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world.'*1 Harvard College now numbers in all its libraries...

...spitting. ' Then,' said he, ' I am glad there was at least one thing in which I had no competitor.' . . To me, his lectures were like the opening of the heavens....glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world." There were hearers who felt that there was a want in his expositions, and there are readers still who...

...literary and historical allusions, his indulgent, and at the same time elevated morality, &c., adds : " To me his lectures were like the opening of the heavens....excited and charmed as any man of cultivated taste could be, who, after being ignorant of their existence, was admitted to all the glories of Milton,...

...expository, but rising into greatness, or softening into tenderness, whenever his subject required it ... To me his lectures were like the opening of the heavens...glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world." In his classes of Moral Philosophy and of Political Economy, or in his own house, where he kept boarders,...

...intimately, and often listened to his discourses. "To me," says Lord Cockburn, in his posthumous memoirs, "his lectures were like the opening of the heavens....excited and charmed as any man of cultivated taste could be, who, after being ignorant of their existence, was admitted to all the glories of Milton,...

...intimately, and often listened to his discourses'. "To me," says Lord Cockburn, in his posthumous memoirs, "his lectures were like the opening of the heavens....excited and charmed as any man of cultivated taste could be, who, after being ignorant of their existence, was admitted to all the glories of Milton,...

...as Lord Cockburn describes himself as having received from the teaching of Dugald Stewart. He says : "To me his lectures were like the opening of the heavens. I felt I had a soul. His noble views, unfolded in glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world. I was...