 | 1758 - 282 pages
...together longer than th:y are diverted by founds or (hows. All Foreigners remark, that the knowlege of the common people of England is greater than that of any other vulgar. This fuperiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of knowlege which are continually trickling among us,... | |
 | 1761 - 308 pages
...a Tumbler, and no company can keep together longer than they are diverted by founds or fhows. *• ALL Foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common...rivulets of intelligence, which are continually trickling C 6 among among us, which every one may catch, and of which every one partakes. This univerfal diffufion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...towhich,the way which they had prefcribed to themfelves, would never have conducted them. Idler, Y. z, p. 79. All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common...England is greater than that of any other vulgar. D^O, v. i, P. 3$. THE Mdies of princes feldom produce ,-. - ' n -r---£if,iV great effects ; for princes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...upon a tumbler, and no company can keep together longer than they are diverted by founds or lhows. All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common...England is greater than that of any other vulgar. This fuperiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence, which are continually trickling among... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...upon a tumbler, and no company can keep together longer than they are diverted by founds or fhows. All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common...England is greater than that of any other vulgar. This fuperiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence, which are continually trickling among... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...upon a tumbler, and no company can keep together longer than they are diverted by founds or fliows. All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common...England is greater than that of any other vulgar. This fuperiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence, which are continually trickling among... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...upon a tumbler, and no com any can ke:p together longer than they are diverted by founds or (hows. All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common people of England is greater than that ot any other vulgar. This fuperiority we un Joubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence, which are... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...together longer than they are diverted by sounds or .shows. All foreigners remark, that the know ledge. of the common people of England is greater than that...every one may catch, and of which every one partakes. This universal diffusion of instruction is, perhaps, not wholly without its inconveniences; it certainly... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common people of En gland is greater than thatofany other vulgar. This superiority we undoubtedly owe...the rivulets of intelligence, which are continually trinkling among us which every one may catch, and of which every one partakes. This universal diffusion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...the way which they :had prescribed to themselves, would never have conducted them." ri vol. 2, p. 79. All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common people of England is greater thau that of any other vulgar. Ibid. vol. 1) p. 33. S'ELF-lCNOWLEDGTi. k Porrtanus, a man celebrated... | |
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All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common people of England is greater than that of any other vulgar. This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence, which are continually trickling among us, which every one may catch,... 
