 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 σελίδες
...cefs of any new undertaking ; and, where argu" ments cannot be found, upon treating it with con" tempt and ridicule. " Such have been the moft formidable enemies of " the great benefactors of the world ; for their.now tions and discourfe are fo agreeable to the lazy, " the envious, and the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 σελίδες
...holding out against it " when it is laid before them ; upon inventing arguments " against the success of any new undertaking ; and, where " arguments cannot...found, upon treating it with contempt " and ridicule. " Surh have been the most formidable enemies of the " great benefactors of the world ; for their notions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 564 σελίδες
...upon holding out against it when it is laid before them ; upon inventing arguments against the success of any new. undertaking, and, where arguments cannot...it with contempt and ridicule. Such have been the most formidable enemies of the great benefactors to mankind, and to these we can hardly doubt but that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 872 σελίδες
...upon holding out against it when it is laid before them ; upon inventing arguments against the success of any new undertaking, and, where arguments cannot...it with contempt and ridicule. Such have been the most formidable enemies of the great benefactors to mankind, and to these we can hardly doubt but that... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1817 - 516 σελίδες
...value themselves upon a perpetual scepticism, upon inventing arguments against the success of every new undertaking, and where arguments cannot be found, upon treating it with contempt and ridicule." Life of Sir Francis Drake.) I trust I am neither so wilfully obstinate nor stupid as not to be aware... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1817 - 514 σελίδες
...value themselves upon a perpetual scepticism, upon inventing arguments against the success of every new undertaking, and where arguments cannot be found, upon treating it with contempt and ridicule." Life of Sir Francis Drake.) I trust I am neither so wilfully obstinate nor stupid as not to be aware... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 σελίδες
...upon holding out against it when it is laid before them ; upon inventing arguments against the success of any new undertaking, and, where arguments cannot...it with contempt and ridicule. Such have been the most formidable enemies of the great benefactors to mankind, and to these we can hardly doubt but that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 σελίδες
...upon holding out against it when it is laid before them ; upon inventing arguments against the success of any new undertaking, and, where arguments cannot...it with contempt and ridicule. Such have been the most formidable enemies of f" the great benefactors to mankind, and to these we can hardly doubt but... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 σελίδες
...it is laid before them ; " upon inventing arguments against the success of any new under" taking ; and, where arguments cannot be found, upon treating...*' with contempt and ridicule. " Such have been the most formidable enemies of the great bew nefactors of the world ; for their notions and discourse are... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 σελίδες
...holding out against it when it is laid before them; upon inventing '• arguments against the success of any new undertaking ; and, where '•' arguments...with contempt and '' ridicule. " Such have been the most formidable enemies of the great benefac" tors of the world ; for their notions and discourse are... | |
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... be obtained, and sometimes upon holding out against it when it is laid before them; upon inventing arguments against the success of any new undertaking, and, where arguments cannot be found, upon treating it with contempt and ridicule. 
