 | 1845 - 632 páginas
...and the legislator" of her sex, and seemed to consider herself as " presiding over the thoughts ind manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place." Of these truths the volumes before us present a large amount of striking and beautiful illustration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time , and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts arid manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. « His labour is not yet... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1846 - 584 páginas
...(content himself with the slow progress of his name 43,) to contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding 44 over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. His... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the intepreter of nature, and the legislate of mankind, and consider himself as presiding- over the thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 228 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...generations; as a being superior to time and place. " His labor is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may... | |
 | J. Cherpilloud - 1853 - 266 páginas
...invariable state : he must rise to' general and transcendant truths, which will alwoys be the same1. His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences; and that his9 style may be worthy of his thoughts, he must, by incessant practiceb, familiarize to himself '... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : ho must know many languages, and man/ sciences ; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 páginas
...therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name, contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, ana the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 452 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...generations ; as a being superior to time and place. " His labor is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may... | |
 | 1874 - 792 páginas
...himself with the slow progress of hig name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit luclaims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the...future generations; as a being superior to time and space." The reader, still subject to these limitations, is doubtless by this time ready to cry with... | |
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He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place. 
