 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1758 - 478 pages
...For while men judge and aci by fuch meafures as have not been proved by the ftandard of difpamonate reafon, they muft equally be miftaken in their eftimates...lefs uncommon in the literary than the civil world. m The number of thofe writers who can with any juftnefs of expreffion be termed thinking authors, would... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...of difpaifionate reafon, they mu Л equally be midaken in their ellimatcs both of their own conducl and that of others. If we turn our view from active...world. The number of thofe writers who can, with any judnefs of expreifion, be termed thinking authors, would not form a very copious library, though one... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...been proved by the standard of dispassionate reason, they must equally be mistaken in their estimates both of their own conduct and that of others. If we...view from active to contemplative life, we may have occasion perhaps to remark, that thinking is no less uncommon in the literary than the civil world.... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1815 - 314 pages
...been proved by the standard of dispassionate reason, they must equally be mistaken in their estimates both of their own conduct and that of others. If we...view from active to contemplative, life, we may have occasion, perhaps, to remark, that thinking is no less uncommon in the literary than the civil world.... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 336 pages
...been proved by the standard of dispassionate reason, they must equally be mistaken in their estimates both of their own conduct and that of others. If we...view from active to contemplative life, we may have occasion, perhaps, to remark, that thinking is no less uncommon in the literary than the civil world.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...been proved by the standard of dispassionate reason, they must equally be mistaken in their estimates humour : he walked a good гиим pace, and a crooked-legged dog trot # $ occasion, perhaps, to remark that thinking is no less uncommon in the literary than the civil world.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...been proved by the standard of dispassionate reason, they must equally be mistaken in their estimates occasion, perhaps, to remark that thinking is no less uncommon in the literary than the civil world.... | |
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The number of those writers who can, with any justness of expression, be termed thinking authors, would not form a very copious library, though one were to take in all of that kind which both ancient... 