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... learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence ...
... learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence ...
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... learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an affected contempt of the ancients , and a super- cilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from ...
... learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an affected contempt of the ancients , and a super- cilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from ...
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... learning , though they knew I declared that I greatly honoured and esteemed all men of superior literature and erudition ; and that I only undervalued false or superficial learning , that signifies nothing for the service of mankind ...
... learning , though they knew I declared that I greatly honoured and esteemed all men of superior literature and erudition ; and that I only undervalued false or superficial learning , that signifies nothing for the service of mankind ...
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... learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who , if the ...
... learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who , if the ...
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... entitle him to an eminent rank in the classes of learning , and whose misfortunes claim a degree of compassion not always due to the unhappy , Johnson's Lives . II . 6 as they were often the consequences of the crimes of SAVAGE . 81 SAVAGE.
... entitle him to an eminent rank in the classes of learning , and whose misfortunes claim a degree of compassion not always due to the unhappy , Johnson's Lives . II . 6 as they were often the consequences of the crimes of SAVAGE . 81 SAVAGE.
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