 ... 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 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...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
 | 1823
...of 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...the thoughts and manners of future generations; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end: he'must know many languages and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same i he must therefore content himself with the slow progress...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must wrile sed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 594 pages
...of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpjeter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider...the thoughts and manners of future generations; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 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...thoughts and manners of future generations; as a being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 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...thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superiour to time and place. • • His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Johnson - Literary Collections - 1825 - 508 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...thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many... | |
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