| James Harris - 1806 - 494 стор.
...they rarely find any rational pleasure pleasure, and more rarely still, any solid C!l improvement. To be competently skilled in antient learning, is...a Scholar, as a Gamester, or many other Characters equalty illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit will fit us for one, as... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 стор.
...rational pleasure, and more rarely still any solid improvement. To be completely skilled in ancient learning is by no means a work of such insuperable...and low. The same application, the same quantity of lubit, will fit us for one as completely as for the other. And as to those who tell us, with an air... | |
| Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole - 1818 - 448 стор.
...feared, they rarely find any rational pleasure, and more n»rtJy still, any solid improvement. To l>e competently skilled in antient learning, is by no...certainly as easy to be a scholar, as a gamester, or many othejr characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit will... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 624 стор.
...models of Grecian lite«' rature." — " To be competently skilled in ancient learning," addi he, " is by no means a work of such insuperable pains. The...other characters equally illiberal and low. The same appli" cation, the same quantity of habit, will fit us for one as completely '« as for the other.... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 стор.
...agreeable to the ear. • . .Vi) " To be competently skilled in ancient learning, is by no means a v.ovk of such insuperable pains. The very progress itself...country, where every mile we advance, new charms arise. 'Tis certainly us easy to he a scholar, as a gamester, or many other characters "Hoolly illiberal and... | |
| James Harris - 1841 - 616 стор.
...rational pleasure, and more rarely still, any solid improvement. To be competently skilled in ancient learning, is by no means a work of such insuperable...some pleasant country, where every mile we advance neiv charms arise. It is certainly as easy to be a scholar, as a gamester, or many other characters... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1851 - 794 стор.
...source of them should no longer engross a moment of my time. Harris, the author of Hermes, says, " It is certainly as easy to be a scholar as a gamester, or any other character equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit, -will... | |
| Samuel Stillman Greene - 1860 - 276 стор.
...credulous people.* That the barons and freeholders derived their authority from kings is wholly a mistake.* It" is certainly as easy to be a scholar" as a gamester. I am not sure of there ever having been such a man11 as Casper Hauser.' The boy has more excuses than... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 450 стор.
...in society. I was early impressed with the words of Harris : ' To be competently skilled in ancient learning is by no means a work of such insuperable...application, the same quantity of habit, will fit ns for one as completely as for the other.' Thus encouraged, I took to reading the best books, illustrated... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 462 стор.
...in society. I was early impressed with the words of Harris : ' To be competently skilled in ancient learning is by no means a work of such insuperable...charms arise. It is certainly as easy to be a scholar aa a gamester, or many other characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity... | |
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