 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1774 - 366 sayfa
...inundations of writers have flowed, more pernicious to the learned world, than the fwarms of Goths and Vandah to the politic. It is, methinks, wonderful, that fellows could be awake, and utter fuch incoherent conceptions, and converfe with great gravity, like learned men, without the leaft tafte... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 sayfa
...to time an inundation of writers have flowed, more pernicious to the learned world, than the fwarms of Goths and Vandals to the politic. It is, methinks, wonderful, that fellows fhould be awake and utter fuch incoherent conceptions, and converfe with great gravity like learned... | |
 | 1831 - 738 sayfa
...notices the book itself: 'The ' purpose of the work is signified in the dedication, in very ele' gant language, and fine raillery. It seems this is a collection...labour to have taken any other method of exposing such im« • A re-impression of this edition, and by the same bookseller (Clements), appeared in 1742.... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 342 sayfa
...here mention. cd, is in I2D10, and dedicated "Isaaco Bickerstaff, A " Magr.se Bi ilanniae Censori." wonderful, that fellows could be awake, and utter...labour to have taken any other method of exposing such impertinences, than by an edition of their own works ; where you see their follies, according to the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 342 sayfa
...mentioned, is in I'.'iuo, and dedicated " Isaaco Bickerstaff, Armigero, Magnoe liritanniii. Censori." wonderful, that fellows could be awake, and utter...labour to have taken any other method of exposing such impertinences, than by an edition of their own works : where you see their follies, according to the... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 sayfa
...here mention" ' 's in I Sino. and dedicated " Isaaco Bickerstaff, Armigero, IE Britannia; Censori." blockheads, who lived before our times, have written...labour to have taken any other method of exposing such impertinences, than by an edition of their own works : where you see their follies, according to the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 334 sayfa
...mentioned, is in r_;iiio. and dedicated ' Isaaco Bickerstaff, Armigero, Magnze Britannia; Censor!.' have written in honour of each other, and for their...labour to have taken any other method of exposing such impertinences, than by an edition of their own works : where you see their follies, according to the... | |
 | 1829 - 804 sayfa
...to time, inundations of writers have flowed, more pernicious to the learned world, than the •warms of Goths and Vandals to the politic. It is, methinks,...labour to have taken any other method of exposing such impertinences, than by an edition of their own works ; where you see their follies, according to the... | |
 | 1831 - 704 sayfa
...of the German nation, whence, from time to time, inundations of writers have flowed, more pernicioui mille mitoiirs retenus mot par mot, Dana на tote ...but frequently said, he would die to be revenged of impertinences, than by an edition of their own works ; where you see their follies, according to the... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 sayfa
...other's absurdities. (! !) They are mostly of the German nation, whence from time to time, inundations have flowed, more pernicious to the learned world...knowledge or good sense. It would have been an endless labor to have taken any other method of exposing such impertinencies, than by a publication of their... | |
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It seems, this is a collection of letters which some profound blockheads, who lived before our times, have written in honour of each other, and for their mutual information in each other's absurdities. They are mostly of the German nation, whence, from... 
