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" Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set out ! how tricked ! how adorned ! how extolled !"* The... "
The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D.: And the Antiquarian ... - Page 171
by William Stukeley - 1882
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Miscellanies of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1840 - 516 pages
...youth, and afterwards withdrawn from public inquiry, has said of the " Athene Oxonienses ' ' — " Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set...
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The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their ...

Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 570 pages
...unchastised youth, and afterwards withdrawn from public inquiry, has said of the " Athenae Oxonienses"— " Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set...
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The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their ...

Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 572 pages
...unchastised youth, and afterwards withdrawn from public inquiry, has said of the " Athense Oxonienses" — " Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set...
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The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their ...

Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1865 - 570 pages
...unchastised youth, and afterwards withdrawn from public inquiry, has said of the " Athens Oxonienses"— " Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set...
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THE CALAMITIES AND QUARRELS

ISAAC DISRAELI - 1865 - 566 pages
...unchastised youth, and afterwards withdrawn from public inquiry, has said of the " Athenae Oxonienses" — " Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set...
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Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1867 - 572 pages
...afterwards .withdrawn from public inquiry, has said of the " Athenze Oxonienses" — "Of all thoso writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set...
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Publications of the Surtees Society, Volume 1; Volume 73

Great Britain - 1880 - 584 pages
...genuine composition. i• Every monkish tale & lye & miracle & ballad are rescued from " their dust & worms, to proclaim the poverty of our forefathers,...grace to letters, most of them are so to common sense, & some " even to human nature. Yet few set out, how tricked, how "adorned, how extolled!" Much more...
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Disraeli's Works, Volume 4

Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 772 pages
...chastised youth, and afterwards withdrawn from public inquiry, has said of the " Athenae Oxonienses " — " Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Tet how set...
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Miscellanies of literature, by the author of 'Curiosities of literature'.

Isaac Disraeli - 1882 - 548 pages
...withdrawn, from puhlic inquiry, has said of the "Athenm Oxonienses" — " Of all those writings given us hy the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are BO to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set...
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Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and Its Reading

Victor Shea, William Whitla - History - 2000 - 1092 pages
...as follows: "Every Monkish Tale, and Lye, and Miracle, and Ballad, are rescued from their Dust and Worms, to proclaim the Poverty of our Forefathers;...Writings given us by the Learned Oxford Antiquary [Hearne], there is not one that is not a Disgrace to Letters; most of them are so to common Sense,...
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