 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 474 pages
...flability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks attainable, he propofes to fecure by inftituting an academy ; the decrees of which every man would...been, willing, and! many would have been proud to difobey, and which, being renewed by fucceffive elections, would in a fhort time have differed itfelf*... | |
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...flability which, contrary, to all experience, he thinks attainable, he propofes to fecure by inftituting. an academy ; the decrees of which every man would...have been willing, and many would have been proud to difobey, and which, being renewed newed by fucceffive ele&ions, would in a fhort time have differed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
...experience, he. thinks attainable, he propofes to fccure by inftituting an academy ; the decrees ef which every man would have been willing, and many would have been proud to clifbbey, and which, being renewed Hewed by fucceffivc eledtions, would ir* a fhort time have differed... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...all eipcricjncc, he think« attainable, he propofes to fecurc by inftituling an academy, the decrecí of which every man would have been willing, and many would have been proud to difobey ; and which, being renewed by fucceffive elections, would in afliort time have differed from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...liability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks attainable, he propofes to iecure by iuftitutiug d neither judgment nor fpirit ; but a few minutes...exhaufted him, fo that he was forced to reft upon h difobey ; and which, being renewed by fucccllive elections, would in a fhort time have differed from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...other tongues. The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks at^ tainable, he proposes to secure by instituting an academy ;...elections, would in a short time have differed from itself. Swift now attained the zenith of his political importance : he published (1711) ihe ''Conduct of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...into the history of other tongues. The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks attainable, he proposes to secure by instituting...elections, would in a short time have differed from itself. Swift now attained the zenith of his political importance ; he published, 1712, the " Conduct of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...history of other tongues. The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he Ihinks attainable, he proposes to secure by instituting an...elections, would in a short time have differed from itself. 18* LIFE OF SWIFT. Swift now attained the zenith of his political importance ; he published, 1712,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 598 pages
...Swift's first Examiner, on the 10th of the following November. K. rience he thinks attainable, lie proposes to secure by instituting an academy ; the...elections, would in a short time have differed from itself. Swift now attained the zenith of his political importance: he published (1712) the Conduct of the Allies,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...following Vmcjr.bvr. R. rience he thinks attainable, he proposes to secure by instituting an acadeihy ; the decrees of which every man would have been willing,..."would in a short time have differed from itself. Swift now attained the zenith of his political importance: he published (1712) the Conduct of the Allies,... | |
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Tongue," in a Letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of language, and without any accurate inquiry into the history of other tongues. The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks... 
