 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...shop. he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were translated, and some of...the kingdom with theological learning ; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers ; and poetry had been cultivated, not only... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...the Greek ; the Reformation had filled the kingdom with theological learning ; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers ;...mind so capable of appropriating and improving it. But the greater part of his excellence was the product of his own genius. He found the English stage... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pages
...the Greek ; the Reformation had filled the kingdom with theological learning ; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers ;...only with diligence, but success. This was a stock of knowl• edge sufficient for a mind so capable of appropriating and improving it. But the greater part... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were translated, and some of...the kingdom with theological learning ; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers ; and poetry had been cultivated, not only... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were translated, and some of...the kingdom with theological learning; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers ; and poetry had been cultivated, not only... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pages
...that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursions into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were translated, and some of...the kingdom with theological learning ; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers ; and poetry had been cultivated, not only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authours were translated, and some of the Greek ; the reformation...the kingdom with theological learning ; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers ; and poetry had been cultivated, not only... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 418 pages
...excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were translated and some of the Greek. . . . This was a stock of knowledge sufficient for a mind so capable of appropriating and improving it. In 1767 Dr. Richard Farmer, Master of Emmanuel College and Head Librarian of the University of Cambridge,... | |
 | 1910 - 482 pages
...liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authours were translated, and some of the Greek; the reformation...the kingdom with theological learning; most of the topicks of human disquisition had found English writers; and poetry had been cultivated, not only with... | |
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... field, and sometimes among the manufactures of the shop. There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into... 
