 I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.  The Universal magazine - Pagina 353Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pagina’s
...this part of my work with pleasure, which no [blame or praise of] man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.' The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagina’s
...he consoles himself. How much better would it have been to have ended with the prose sentence, " I ot such dissimulation impair one's honesty? Is there not some danger that a lawye I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue and confident -L- to truth." His... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pagina’s
...on this part of mv work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. Aiiruv... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pagina’s
...which he consoles himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence 'I pendent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.' Talking of I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.' His... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pagina’s
...on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can 1 Rambler, No. 196. » /Wd.,No.203. D be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pagina’s
...on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." The... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pagina’s
...long after most epics had shriveled. An immense if quiet pride suffuses the Rambler's farewell. "I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth" (5: 320).... | |
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