 Men bred in the Universities of Scotland cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance, not inadequate to the purposes of common life, which...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 204by Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...believe, very widely diffufed among them, and which, countenanced in general by a national combination fo invidious, that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated in particulars by a fpirit of enterprife, fo vigorous, that their enemies are conftrained to praife it, enables them to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...believe, very widely diffufed among them, and which, countenanced in general by a national combination fo invidious, that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated in particulars by a fpirit of enterprife, fo vigorous, that their enemies are conftrainecf to praife it, enables them to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...believe, very widely diffuied among them, and which countenanced in general by a national combination fo invidious, that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated in particulars by a fpirit of enterprife, fo vigorous, that their enemies are conftrained to praife it, enables ..them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...countenanced in. general by a national combination so individious, that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated in particulars by a spirit of enterprise,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...believe, very widely diffufed among them, and which, countenanced in general by a national combination fo invidious, that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated in particulars by a fpirit of enterprife, fo vigorous, that their enemies are conftrained to praife it, enables them to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...believe, very widely diffufed among them, and which, countenanced in general by a national combination fo invidious, that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated in particulars by a fpirit of enterprife, fo vigorous, that their ene-. mies are conftrained to praife it, enables them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...invidious, that their friends cannot defend it, and acr tuated in particulars by a spirit of enterprise, so vigorous, that their enemies are constrained... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...common life, which is, I believe, very widely diffused amongst them, and which, countenanced in general by a national combination so invidious, that their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 444 pages
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated ia particulars by a spirit of enterprise, so vigorous, that their enemies are constrained to praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 pages
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...praise it, enables them to find, or to make their wa^ to employment, riches, and distinction. From Glasgow we directed our course to Auchinleck, an estate... | |
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