| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 páginas
...be the profits of life, give me the amufements of it. The people I behold all around me, it feems, know all this and more, and yet I do not know one of them who infpires me wirh any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge, but formerly... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1794 - 492 páginas
...the profits of live, give me the amufeinents of it. The people I behold all around me , it feeiiiS, know all this and more, and yet I do not know one of them who infpires me with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge , but formerly... | |
| John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 páginas
...much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly; and...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it." Perhaps the three modern writers who possessed the most universal genius were Leibnitz, l^Uton, and... | |
| John Blair Linn - 1804 - 192 páginas
...much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly . and...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it." Perhaps the three modern writers who possessed the most universal genius were Leibnitz, Milton, and... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 páginas
...much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and...I do not know one of them who inspires me with any amhition of being like him. Surely it was of this place (now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name... | |
| 1829 - 558 páginas
...much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and...the amusements of it. The people I behold all around oie, it seems, know all this and more, and yet I do not know one of them who inspires me with any ambition... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and...with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was not this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet spoke when... | |
| 1891 - 874 páginas
...I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthincs to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it. We get a fairly good idea of one side of Gray from this ; but we may add to it a more complete portrait... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...a degree. " It is very possible," he said, " that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly; and...inspires me with any ambition of being like him." Contempt of knowledge is always based upon ignorance. In his riper manhood he regretted his want of... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 páginas
...a degree. ' It is very possible,' he said, ' that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and...inspires me with any ambition of being like him.' Contempt of knowledge is always based upon ignorance. In his riper manhood he regretted his want of... | |
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