 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity, by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the... | |
 | 1806 - 614 pagine
...talk, was then rarely to be fourld. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured." The dissolute and licentious m .meis, which the court of Charles II. hid introduced, still continued... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose Was to infuse literary curiosity by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity, by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity, by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity, by• gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pagine
...talk, was then rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance; and in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured."* When we reflect, that to express contempt for all literary acquirement was then a certain proof of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity, by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pagine
...in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity by gentle uiul unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the... | |
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That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance; and in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. 
