And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display... The Lives of the English Poets - Página 166por Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1879 - 530 páginas
...reasoners, and the men of profound learning," would have no subject left whereon to display their wisdom: "What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived...by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon railing and invective against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or to distinguish... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...1ч! able to and another subject, so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities ? st we are lookin«; ireniu*. by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities ? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genins, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...learning, be able to find another subject so calculated, in all points, whereon to display their abilities? raising estates for their own families by bringing...seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate ! \Ve are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would take away the greatest,... | |
| John Morrison Davidson - 1880 - 274 páginas
...and improve their talents and divert their spleen from falling on each other or on themselves. . . . We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only, topic we have left ? " Well, if there are any such great... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...learning, lx? able to find another subject co calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities 7 What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those who-*; genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 490 páginas
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those, whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives, against...shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject 1 we are daily complaining of the great de.'ine of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 502 páginas
...be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities ? what wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived...of, from those whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 páginas
...their abilities ? What wonderful productious of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genins, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon...invectives against religion, and would, therefore, be never able to shine or distinguish themselves on any other subject? We are daily complaining of... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 514 páginas
...subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities ? what wonderful product tions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be... | |
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