 | 1803 - 296 páginas
...The mental disease of the present generation, is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly...unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of tht:se happy days have discovered a way to fame which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 páginas
...The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly...sophistry which it was formerly the business of years to unite, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 370 páginas
...the present generation, is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters No. 154. KAMBLER. 29,9 of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly...ancestors durst never attempt ; they cut the knots of '«ophistry, which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations... | |
 | 1822 - 370 páginas
...The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly...discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our labprious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry, which it was formerly the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 páginas
...The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly...sophistry which it was formerly the business of years to unite, solve ill Hi en I lies by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 páginas
...contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted v genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these happy...untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligenQe, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition. Men who have flattered... | |
 | 1830 - 570 páginas
...the present generation," says Dr. Johnson,1 "is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity." — Instead of 'the present generation' put your own name, Sir, and "Mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 páginas
...The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly...business of years, to untie, solve difficulties by nudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 páginas
...impatience of study, and a disposition to rely on unassisted genius and natural sagacity ; the wits of these days have discovered a way to fame which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors dared never attempt." The -remark is as applicable at this day, as it was in Johnson's time. Our young... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 328 páginas
...the mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly...unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these days solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument... | |
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. 
