 Let us not however make too much haste to despise our neighbours. Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence...  A journey round the library of a bibliomaniac - Sayfa 82William Davis (bibliographer.) tarafından - 1821 - 120 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 sayfa
...sign." ' [2 Henry VI, act iii. sc. 3.] See De Quincey's Works, iii. 151. ' ' Let us not,' he says, ' make too much haste to despise our neighbours. Our...time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence.' Works, ix. 20. ' Note by Lord Hailes. ' The cathedral of Elgin was burnt by the Lord of Badenoch, because... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 sayfa
...was shipped to fce sold in Holland. I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea. Let us not however make too much haste...by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to be part of thedespicable philosophy of the time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence, and •we are in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 sayfa
...was shipped to be sold in Holland. I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea. Let us not however make too much haste to despise our neigbour*. Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to be part of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 sayfa
...was shipped to be sold in Holland. I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea. Let us not however make too much haste...monuments of sacred magnificence, and we are in danger o£ doing that deliberately, which the Scots did not do but in the unsettled state of an imperfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 sayfa
...was shipped to be sold in Holland. I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea. Let us not however make too much haste to de^ spise our neighbours. Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 sayfa
...was shipped to be sold in Holland. I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea. Let us not, however, make too much haste to despise our neighbours. Our own cathedrals arc mouldering by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 sayfa
...was shipped to be sold in Holland. I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea. Let us not, however, make too much haste to despise our neighbours. Our own cathedrals arc mouldering by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 sayfa
...was shipped to be sold in Holland. I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea. Let us not however make too much haste to- despise o«r neighbours. Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to be part... | |
 | 1924 - 734 sayfa
...while ugliness is a defect connoting moral evil. As Dr. Johnson said in the infancy of industrialism, " it seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of...time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence."* The theory of the progressives was, apparently, that whatever had stood the test of countless ages... | |
 | 1926 - 564 sayfa
...hopes that the reader " will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea " ; then he adds : Let us not, however, make too much haste to despise our neighbours. There is now as I have heard a body of men not less decent or virtuous than the Scottish Council longing... | |
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