 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 494 pages
...they rarely find any rational pleasure pleasure, and more rarely still, any solid C!l improvement. To be competently skilled in antient learning, is...a Scholar, as a Gamester, or many other Characters equalty illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit will fit us for one, as... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...rational pleasure, and more rarely still any solid improvement. To be completely skilled in ancient learning is by no means a work of such insuperable...and low. The same application, the same quantity of lubit, will fit us for one as completely as for the other. And as to those who tell us, with an air... | |
 | Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole - Logic - 1818 - 448 pages
...feared, they rarely find any rational pleasure, and more n»rtJy still, any solid improvement. To l>e competently skilled in antient learning, is by no...certainly as easy to be a scholar, as a gamester, or many othejr characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit will... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 624 pages
...models of Grecian lite«' rature." — " To be competently skilled in ancient learning," addi he, " is by no means a work of such insuperable pains. The...other characters equally illiberal and low. The same appli" cation, the same quantity of habit, will fit us for one as completely '« as for the other.... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...agreeable to the ear. • . .Vi) " To be competently skilled in ancient learning, is by no means a v.ovk of such insuperable pains. The very progress itself...country, where every mile we advance, new charms arise. 'Tis certainly us easy to he a scholar, as a gamester, or many other characters "Hoolly illiberal and... | |
 | James Harris - Philosophy, Modern - 1841 - 616 pages
...rational pleasure, and more rarely still, any solid improvement. To be competently skilled in ancient learning, is by no means a work of such insuperable...some pleasant country, where every mile we advance neiv charms arise. It is certainly as easy to be a scholar, as a gamester, or many other characters... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indians of North America - 1851 - 794 pages
...source of them should no longer engross a moment of my time. Harris, the author of Hermes, says, " It is certainly as easy to be a scholar as a gamester, or any other character equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit, -will... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 276 pages
...credulous people.* That the barons and freeholders derived their authority from kings is wholly a mistake.* It" is certainly as easy to be a scholar" as a gamester. I am not sure of there ever having been such a man11 as Casper Hauser.' The boy has more excuses than... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 450 pages
...in society. I was early impressed with the words of Harris : ' To be competently skilled in ancient learning is by no means a work of such insuperable...application, the same quantity of habit, will fit ns for one as completely as for the other.' Thus encouraged, I took to reading the best books, illustrated... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 462 pages
...in society. I was early impressed with the words of Harris : ' To be competently skilled in ancient learning is by no means a work of such insuperable...charms arise. It is certainly as easy to be a scholar aa a gamester, or many other characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity... | |
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To be competently skilled in antient learning, is by no 'means a work of such insuperable pains. The very progress itself is attended with delight, and resembles a Journey through some pleasant Country, where every mile we advance, new charms arise. It... 
