"There is nothing for which one—at least I—should so much envy as Sir W. Scott as the bold facility with which he seized a subject and by the first glance determined all its properties. He was perpetually wrong in his details, but always right, luminous, and I had almost said exact, in his general view—but I am not of that power. I do nothing at all approaching to well but what I understand in its details. Would I could."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomFellows of the Royal SocietyAnglicans from the United KingdomPoliticians from IrelandAuthors from Ireland
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Letter to John Murray, quoted in Myron F. Brightfield, John Wilson Croker (1940), p. 331
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John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker (20 December 178010 August 1857) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and author.
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