| David Hume - 1775 - 480 trang
...embraced with regard to its domeftic occurrences. Competitions the moil defpicable, both for ftyle and matter, have been extolled, and propagated, and read ; as if they had equalled the rnoft celebrated remains of antiquity2. And forgetting that a regard to liberty, though a laudable... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1780 - 504 trang
...323 of ihe eighth volume of this work (edit. 1778, 8vo) we read as follows: " Compofitions the nioft defpicable both for flyle and matter, have been extolled,...if they had equalled the moft celebrated remains of ant'quity." in the laft edition but one of Mr. H's Hiftory, there was fubjoined to this paflage a note... | |
| David Hume - 1789 - 580 trang
...embraced with regard to its domeftic occurrences. Compofitions the moft defpicable, both for ftyle and matter, have been extolled, and propagated, and...equalled the moft celebrated remains of antiquity r . And forgetting that a regard to liberty, though a laudable pafTion, ought commonly to be fubordinate... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1796 - 474 trang
...confequence of the influence of the Whigs, '* compo'* fitions the moft defpicable, both for " ilile and matter, have .been extolled, ** and propagated,...read ; as if they ** had equalled the moft celebrated re'•" mains of antiquity'44." Thefe DESPICABLE COMPOSITIONS, he informs us in-a note, are thofe of... | |
| 1835 - 700 trang
...despicable, both for style and ' matter' (in a note he instances Locke, Sydney, Hoadley, and Rapin), ' have been extolled and propagated and read as if they ' had equalled the most celebrated remains of antiquity. And * forgetting that a regard to liberty, though a laudable... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 trang
...that in consequence of the: influence of the whigs, Compositions the most despicable, both for style and matter have been extolled, and propagated, and read as if they had equalled the most celebrated remains of aniiquity." These despicable compositions, he has the arrogance and inconsistency... | |
| David Hume - 1810 - 550 trang
...embraced with regard to its domestic occurrences. Compositions the most despicable, both for style and matter, have been extolled, and propagated, and read ; as if they had equalled the most celebrated remains of antiquity. y And forgetting that a regard to liberty, though a laudable... | |
| David Hume - 1812 - 576 trang
...embraced with regard to its domestic occurrences. Compositions the most despicable, both for style and matter, have been extolled, and propagated and read ; as if they had equalled the most celebrated remains of antiquity y. And forgetting that a regard to liberty, though a laudable... | |
| David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 422 trang
...embraced with regard to its domestic occurrences. Compositions the most despicable, both for style and matter, have been extolled, and propagated, and read ; as if they had equalled the most celebrated remains of antiquity9. And forgetting that a regard to liberty, though a laudable passion,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 trang
...despicable, both for style and matter" (in a note he instances Locke, Sydney, Hoadley, and Rapin) T "have been extolled and propagated and read as if they had equalled the most celebrated remains of antiquity. And forgetting that a regard to liberty, though a laudable passion,... | |
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