 I guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose Rousseau; and I think their omission of what I said on that subject proves I was not mistaken in my guess. My letter hinted, too, my contempt of learned men...  Reminiscences - Page 153by Horace Walpole - 1819 - 166 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1798 - 614 pages
...illnature.' (See vol. iv. p. 119.)—Mr. W. says, in writing to 'Hume, p. 261.—' My letter hinted my contempt of learned men and their miserable conduct....at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men ; and I have often thought, that young men ought to be made... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 464 pages
...curtailed; nor should I have consented to that if you had asked me. I guess that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men ; and I have often thought, that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1830 - 356 pages
...; nor should 1 have consented to that if you had asked me. I guess that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men ; and I have often thought, that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...nor should I have consented to that if you had asked me. J guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men; and I have often thought that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...nor should I have consented to that if you had asked me. I guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men; and I have often thought that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...nor should I have consented to that if you had asked me. I guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men; and I have often thought that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...nor should I have consented to that if you had asked me. I guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men ; and I have often thought that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...nor should I have consented to that if you had asked me. I guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men; and I have often thought that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 574 pages
...nor should I have consented to that if you had asked me. I guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men; and I have often thought that young men ought to be made... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...despise nearly all other men of letters : what is there but affectation in thus writing to Hume — "My letter hinted, too, my contempt of learned men...at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men."* What is the secret of all this affectation ? He wanted... | |
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