 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pagini
...himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." His friend, Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagini
...himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence ' I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth'.' His friend, Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces. Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagini
...himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence ' I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth1.' His friend, Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pagini
...diminifh or augment. I fhall never envy *' the honours which wit and learning obtain " in any other caufe, if I can be numbered " among the writers who have...given ardour " to virtue, and confidence to truth." The whole number of Effays amounted to two hundred and eight. Addifon's, in the Spectator, are more... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pagini
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. Avrat ix Celestial pow'rs ! that piety regard, From you my labours wait tlu.ir last reward. BND OF... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pagini
...censure by a firm avowal, that he sought only the advancement of morality, and " that he shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if he can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue and confidence to truth." The... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pagini
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. • Celestial pow'rs! that piety regard ; From you my labours wait their last reward. THE END. VOLUME... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1804 - 398 pagini
...diminifh or augment. I mall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other caufe, if I can be numbered among the writers, who have given. ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth :" " Celeftial powers ! that piety regard, " From you my labours wait their laft reward." Soon after... | |
 | 540 pagini
...-ti'.:'\ never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if we can be nunJbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." — DR. JOHNSO> . ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Z)r. Toulmin to the Editor. S:a, AS you have judged the... | |
 | 1807 - 602 pagini
...i4'VERSiTYl THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. №XLIV.— VoL.VlII.] For JULY, 1807- [NEw SERIES. " We shall nevsr envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if we can be numbered among the writers who have giveii ardour to virtu«, ai:d confidence to tiuih —... | |
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I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. 
