 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1775 - 446 pages
...minifter in fetting forward thefe excellent " gifts of learning," &c. page 24.2. Truly, fays Harrifon, it is a rare thing with us now to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language ; and to fay how many gentlewomen and ladies there are, that, befides found knowledge... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1776 - 346 pages
...great in that reign: at leaft, if we may credit Mailer WILLIAM HARRISON, who difcouHeth on thefubject before us in the following manner: " This further...rare thing with us now, to hear of a courtier which employed her leifure in making fome fine tranflations out of either language. It is eafy to fee what... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1788 - 428 pages
...which have not the ufe and fkill of fundry ipeeches, befide an excellent vein of writing, before time not regarded. Truly it is a rare thing with us now,...making fome fine tranflations out of either language. k is eafy to fee what effect this general attention to letters muft have on the rninds of the liberal... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...which have not the use and skill of sundry speeches, beside an excellent vein of writing, before time not regarded. Truly it is a rare thing with us now, to hear of a courtier which hath but his Own language. And to say how many gentlewomen and ladies there are, that, besids sound knowledge... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 406 pages
...which have not the use and skill of sundry speeches, beside an excellent vein of writing, before time not regarded. Truly it is a rare thing with us now, to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language. And to say how many gentlewomen and ladies there are, that, beside sound knowledge... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of " learning," &c. Page 242. Truly, says Harrison, it is a rare thing with us now to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language ; and to say how many gentlewomen and ladies there are that, besides sound knowledge... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 492 pages
...minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning," &c. Page 242. Truly, says Harrison, it is a rare thing with us now to hear of a courtier which Latin without premeditation, and in a very spirited manner, to the Polish ambassador, who had been... | |
 | 1841 - 444 pages
...Britain, book 2, chap. 15, gives a very eulogistic description in the quaint language of the period : " Truly it is a rare thing with us now to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language ; and to say how many gentlemen and ladies there are that, besides sound knowledge... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1844 - 536 pages
...manners of his time may be thought, perhaps, to hint at something of the kind in what follows : — " Truly it is a rare thing with us now to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language. And to say how many gentlewomen and l.nlii : there are that, beside sound knowledge... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1848 - 560 pages
...minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning," &c. Page 242. " Truly," says Harrison, " it is a rare thing with us now to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language : and to say how many gentlewomen and ladies there are that, besides sound knowledge... | |
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... sound knowledge of the Greek and Latin tongues, are thereto no less skilful in the Spanish, Italian, and French, or in some one of them, it resteth not in me... 
