 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 σελίδες
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...spirit of enterprise, so vigorous, that their enemies 'arc constrained to praise it, enables them to find, or to make their way to employment, riches, and... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 σελίδες
...knowledge, between learning and ignorance, not inadequate to the purposes of common life, which is very widely diffused among them, and which, countenanced...constrained to praise it, enables them to find or make their way to employment, riches, and distinction." AH are not rebels ; some are duteous still,... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 σελίδες
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendoursof ornamental erudition; but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...inadequate to the purposes of common life, which is very widely diffused amoni.- them, and which, countenanced in general by a comhination so invidious... | |
 | Charles Churchill, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell - 1880 - 724 σελίδες
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...inadequate to the purposes of common life, which is very widely diffused among them, and which, countenanced in general by a national combination so invidious,... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 486 σελίδες
...use Johnson's words, ' by a national combination so invidious that their friends cannot defend it,and actuated in particulars by a spirit of enterprise...vigorous that their enemies are constrained to praise it, enabled them to find, or to make their way to employment, riches, and distinction.' Johnson's Works,... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1904 - 398 σελίδες
...with the splendours of ornamental erudition ; but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, intermediate between learning and ignorance, not inadequate to the purposes of common life. The students for the most part go thither boys, and depart before they are men ; they carry with them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 σελίδες
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance,...constrained to praise it, enables them to find, or make their way to employment, riches, and distinction. From Glasgow we directed our course to Auchinleck,... | |
 | John Sutherland Black, George William Chrystal, Sir George William Chrystal - 1912 - 704 σελίδες
...schoolmen, and the culture it supplied was exposed to the criticism of Dr. Johnson, who described it as " a mediocrity of knowledge between learning and ignorance, not inadequate to the purposes of common life," though falling short of " the splendours of ornamental erudition." A student who in those days aspired... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 364 σελίδες
...cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge between learning and ignorance,...which is, I believe, very widely diffused among them. Johnson defended his opinion in a conversation of 1775 (Life of J., 2. 416). Contrast to the statements... | |
 | 1996 - 144 σελίδες
...disability but not as a health professional. In that sense I adhere to the dictum of Samuel Johnson: «A mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance, not inadequate to the purposes of common life.» Although the Maastricht Treaty brings health policy and health matters within the competence of the... | |
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Men bred in the Universities of Scotland cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance, not inadequate to the purposes of common life, which... 
