 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Europe - 1752 - 622 pages
...and ftatefmen : as little fhall we affect the flender merit of becoming great fcholars at the expence of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity. All thefe miftake the true drift of ftudy, and the true ufe of hiftory. Nature gave us curiofity to excite... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1768 - 376 pages
...ftatefmen : As little fhail we affeft the Header merit of becoming great fcholars fcholars at the expence of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity. All thefe miftake the true drift of ftudy, and the true nfe of hiftory. Nature gave us curiofity to excite... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1793 - 570 pages
...and ftatefmen ; as little fhall we affed the flender merit of coming great fcholars at the expence of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity. All thefe miftake the true drift of ftudy, and the true ufe of hiftory. Nature gave us curiofity to excite... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...and ftatefmen: as little (hall we aficii the /lender merit of becoming great fcholars at the expfcce of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity. All thefe mil; jbc the true drift of ftudy, and the true ufe of hiftory. Nature gave us curioiity to excite... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 486 pages
...vanity : as little shall we content ourselves to drudge like grammarians and criticks, that others may be able to study with greater ease and profit, like...dark mazes of antiquity. All these mistake the true drift of study and the true use of history. Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...vanity : as little shall we content ourselves to drudge like grammarians and critics, that others may be able to study, with greater ease and profit, like...dark mazes of antiquity. All these mistake the true drift of study, and the true use of history. Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...and ftatefmen : as little mall we affect the flender merit of becoming great fcholars at the expence of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity. All thefe miftake the true drift« of ftudy, and the true ufe of hiftory. Nature gave os curiofity to excite... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...drudge like grammarians and critics, that others may be able to study with greater ease and prolit, like philosophers and statesmen : as little shall...the slender merit of becoming great scholars at the expence of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity. (Bolingbroke's Lett.) Beauties in... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...vanity; as little shall we content ourselves to drudge like grammarians and critics, that others may be able to study with greater ease and profit, like...dark mazes of antiquity. All these mistake the true drift of study, and the true use of history. Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...vanity ; as little shall we content ourselves to drudge like grammarians and critics, that others may be able to study with greater ease and profit, like...the slender merit of becoming great scholars, at the expence of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity. All these mistake the true drift of... | |
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... in this as in most other cases, who are so proud of being rational. We shall neither read to soothe our indolence, nor to gratify our vanity; as little shall we content ourselves to drudge like grammarians and critics, that others may be able to study... 
