 | William Cobbett - 1822 - 444 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned -out from Winchester and Westminster School, ot from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and...the ability which it probably gave me to be. one of the.greatest terrors, to one of the .• greatest and most powerful': body of knaves and fools, that... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1822 - 432 pagina’s
...fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces...and Universities. It is impossible to say how much 1 owe to that sand-hill ; and I went to return it my thanks for the ability which it probably gave... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 pagina’s
...fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces...sand-hill ; and I went to return it my thanks for tUe ability winch it probably gave me to be one of the greatest terrors, to one of the greatest and... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 236 pagina’s
...inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminister School, or from any of those dens of dunces called...gave me to be one of the greatest terrors, to one of tne greatest and most powerful bodies of knaves and fools, that ever was permitted to afflict this... | |
 | 1867 - 854 pagina’s
...rinriiil, as any of those frivolons idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster schools, or from any of those dens of dunces > called colleges and universities. Here, after Warton and Keats, we have a very distinct third variety of the Writing Man. As to poetry... | |
 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster schools, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities." It would be idle to say a word in confutation of the wild folly of this last sentence. No doubt there... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster schools, or from any of those dens of dunces called colleges and universities." . Here, after Warton and Keats, we have a very distinct third variety of the Writing Man. As to poetry... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1873 - 364 pagina’s
...wholly ignorant or the half-instructed ; and they believed in him the more when he paraded his contempt of "those frivolous idiots that are turned out from...dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities." Such was the taking style of the rampant days of democratic journalism. The direction has changed of... | |
 | William Allingham - 1873 - 764 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster schools, or from any of those dens of dunces called colleges and universities.' Here, after Warton and Keats, we have a distinct third variety of the writing man. As to poetry and... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 482 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that arc turned out from Winchester and Westminster Schools, or from any of those dens of dunces called colleges...my thanks for the ability which it probably gave me fo be one of the greatest terrors to one of the greatest and most powerful bodies of knaves and fools... | |
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I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities. 
