 | 1764 - 198 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even mixed with foreign idioms, is agreeable and in-? terefting. That mixture of vanity, which appears in his works,...means of it» we enter into acquaintance with the chancier of the author, full of honour and humanity 5 and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perufal... | |
 | David Hume - 1775 - 480 trang
...which overwhelmed the nation. The ftyle of this author, though extremely negligent, and even infefited with foreign idioms, is agreeable and interefting....perufal of a book, but in converfation with a companion. THOUGH CHAP. THOUGH Hudibras was published, and probably comLXXII. pofed, during Charles the fecond's... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 300 trang
...unpolluted by that inun^ dation of vice and licentioufnefs , which overwhelmed the nation. The ftyle of this author, though extremely negligent, and even...in his works , is rather a recommendation to them. Bymeans of it, we enter into acquaintance with the character of the author, full of honor arid humanity... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 550 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even infected with foreign idioms, is agreeable and interesting. That mixture of vanity which appears in his works,...humanity ; and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perusal of a book, but in conversation with a companion.He died in 1698, aged 70. THoUGH Hudibras was... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 532 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even infected with foreign idioms, is agreeable and interesting. That mixture of vanity which appears in his works,...humanity ; and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perusal of a book, but in conversation with a companion."1 TEMPLEMAN (PETER), MD the son of an eminent... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 576 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even infected with foreign idioms, is agreeable and interesting. That mixture of vanity which appears in his works,...humanity ; and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perusal of a book, but in conversation with a companion. He died in 1698, aged 70. THOUGH Hudibras... | |
 | William Temple - 1814 - 554 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even infected with foreign idioms, is agreeable and interesting. That mixture of vanity which appears in his Works,...humanity ; and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perusal of a book, but in conversation with a companion." ESSAY UPON THE ORIGINAL AND NATURE OF GOVERNMENT.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 526 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even infected with foreign idioms, is agreeable and interesting. That mixture of vanity which appears in his works,...humanity ; and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perusal of a book, but in conversation with a companion."' TEMPLEMAN (PETER), MD the son of an eminent... | |
 | 1816 - 526 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even infected with foreign idioms, is agreeable and interesting. That mixture of vanity which appears in his works,...humanity ; and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perusal of a book, but in conversation wilh a companion.'" TEMPLEMAN (PETER), MD the son of an eminent... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 422 trang
...author, though extremely negligent, and even infected with foreign idioms is agreeable and interesting. That mixture of vanity which appears in his works,...humanity; and fancy that we are engaged, not in the perusal of a book, but in conversation with a companion. He died in 1698, aged 70. Though Hudibras... | |
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... writers of this age, Sir William Temple is almost the only one that kept himself altogether unpolluted by that inundation of vice and licentiousness which overwhelmed the "nation. The style of this author, though extremely negligent, and even infected... 
