 ... must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same: he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims...  Views and Interviews on Journalism - Page 252edited by - 1875 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state; hp must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise...future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. His labour is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences ; — and that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...the same: he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...future Generations; as a being superior to time and place. many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must wiite as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of...future generations; as a being superior to time and place, " His labour is not yet at an end : he must, know many languages and many sciences; and, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...future generations; as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end: he must know .many languages and many sciences; and, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...his age or country ; he must consider fight and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise...future generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labor is not yet at an end : he must know. many languages and many sciences ; and, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise...future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise...future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. "His labour is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and onsider himself aspre siding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...therefore content himself with the slovr progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, aud commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...future generations, as a being superior to time and place. ' His labour is not yet at an end ; he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...bad taste, or mean genius, of some of its fashionable professors. The true Poet, as Johnson says, f " must write as the interpreter of Nature, and ' the...future generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The originality of distortion ; and the false glare of unnatural combinations, is, indeed,... | |
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