 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 504 pages
...they rarely find any rational / pleasure pleasure, and more rarely still, any solid Cil- vimprovement. To be competently skilled in antient learning, is...a Scholar, as a Gamester, or many other Characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit will fit us for one, as... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 528 pages
...they., rarely find any rational ,; .. v pleasure \ pfcasure, and more rarely still, any solid Ct>- V. improvement. To be competently skilled in antient...Country, where every mile we advance, new charms arise. Jt is certainly as easy to be a Scholar, as a Gamester, or many other Characters equally illiberal... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 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...a scholar, as a gamester, or many other characters equally 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...a scholar, as a gamester, or many other characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of lubit, will fit us for one as... | |
 | 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...scholar as a gamester, " or many other characters equally illiberal and low. The same appli" cation, the same quantity of habit, will fit us for one... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 820 pages
...models of Grecian literature.' — ' To be completely skilled in ancient learning,' adds he, he, ' is by no means a work of such insuperable pains. The...a scholar as a gamester, or many other characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit, will fit us for one as... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 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...a scholar, as a gamester, or many other characters equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit will fit us for one, as... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...rational pleasure, and more rarely still any solid improvement. To be completely skilled in ancient fable : if we reflect upon those innumerable knowledges,...wonder may this consideration afford us ! how fertile equally illiberal and low. The same application, the same quantity of habit, will fit us for one as... | |
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To be competently skilled in ancient 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... 
