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Page 120
If these great innovations proceed , I shall expect a flat and level in learning too ,
as well as in church - preferments : Honos alit Artes . And of though it be true ,
that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , " and embrace virtue for ...
If these great innovations proceed , I shall expect a flat and level in learning too ,
as well as in church - preferments : Honos alit Artes . And of though it be true ,
that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , " and embrace virtue for ...
Page 201
Learning once made , popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of
something which are have bestowed upon ourselves as the dew , appears to rise
from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must transport
...
Learning once made , popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of
something which are have bestowed upon ourselves as the dew , appears to rise
from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must transport
...
Page 368
I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent ,
discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physick from its sublimity , and to
represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the
...
I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent ,
discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physick from its sublimity , and to
represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the
...
Page 472
The honours due to Learning have been justly distributed by the decision of
posterity . The Battle of the Books ” is so like the “ Combat des Livres " which the
same question concerning the Ancients and Moderns had produced in France ,
that ...
The honours due to Learning have been justly distributed by the decision of
posterity . The Battle of the Books ” is so like the “ Combat des Livres " which the
same question concerning the Ancients and Moderns had produced in France ,
that ...
Page 610
He continued some time in the army ; though it is reasonable to suppose that he
never sunk into a mere soldier , nor ever lost the love or much neglected the
pursuit of learning ; and afterwards , finding himself more inclined to civil
employment ...
He continued some time in the army ; though it is reasonable to suppose that he
never sunk into a mere soldier , nor ever lost the love or much neglected the
pursuit of learning ; and afterwards , finding himself more inclined to civil
employment ...
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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