 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 σελίδες
...if it be considered, will justify the publick. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....themselves disgraced by ignorance. The women had not then ar.pired to literature, nor was every house supplied with a closet of knowledge. Those, indeed, who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 σελίδες
...who have no power to judge of paft times but by their own, fhould always .doubt their conclufions. The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in the prefent. To read was not MILTO Nv 137 not then a general amufement ; neither traders, nor often genflemen,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 σελίδες
...public. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt iheir conclusions. The call for books was not in Milton's...nor often gentlemen, thought themselves disgraced by tioraace. The women had not then aspired to auire, nor was every house supplied with 4 rioset of knowledge.... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 σελίδες
...at a price confiderably advanced. Of the firft edition it has been obferved by Dr. Johnfon, that " the call for books was not in Milton's age what it is at prefent ; — the nation liad been fatisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 σελίδες
...if. it be considered, will justify the publick. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....is in the present. To read was not then a general general amusement ; neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought themselves disgraced by ignorance.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 σελίδες
...if it be considered, will justify the publick. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....nor often gentlemen thought themselves disgraced by ignoranee. The women had not then aspired to literature, nor was every house supplied with a closet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 σελίδες
...if it be considered, will justify the publick. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions. The call for books was not in Milton's age what il is in the present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders, nor often gentlemen... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 σελίδες
...twenty-two years. It may be conceded to * Tod. vol. ip 189, 190. List. t M. 'bid. Dr. Johnson, that ' the call for books was not, in Milton's age, what it is in the present :'* yet it was greater, we apprehend, than he seems inclined to represent it; and, at all events, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 σελίδες
...be considered, will justify the pub- y lick. Those who have no power to judge of past ^ times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....call for books was not in Milton's age what it is at present. To read was not then a general amusement; neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 σελίδες
...if it be considered, will justify the public. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions....call for books was not in Milton's age what it is iu the present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought... | |
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The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in the present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders nor often gentlemen thought themselves disgraced by ignorance*. The women had not then aspired to literature 3, nor was every... 
