 | Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...stores of Divine learning, having no end before him " but the service of God and truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God...whose published labours advance the good of mankind*;" — how should we ttien rejoice to meet our renovated friend ! With what unmixed satisfaction should... | |
 | Elizabeth Smith, Henrietta Maria Bowdler - English literature - 1809 - 266 pages
...chimera of pride ? Or is the attain-- ment of it worthy the endeavours of a sensible and upright man. * " That lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which...whose published labours advance the good of mankind." Milton's Areopagitica. Klopstock. I consider fame as a means to acquire" friends even after our death.... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 536 pages
...learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end, but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which...whose published labours advance the good of mankind : then know, that so far to distrust the judgment and the honesty of one who hath but a cemmon repute... | |
 | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Authors, German - 1809 - 492 pages
...endeavours of a sensible and upright man? • " That lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which Gor> " and good men have consented shall be the reward of...whose published labours advance the good of mankind." MMton't /treofagit'tca, Klopstock, I consider fame as a means to acquire friends even after our death.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822
...succeeding age in the mighty mould of his own; for JOHNSON was of that order of men whose individual genius becomes that of a people. A prouder conception rose...whose PUBLISHED LABOURS advance the good of mankind." The LITERARY CHARACTER is a denomination which, however vague, defines the pursuits of the individual,... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1826 - 470 pages
...learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which...whose published labours advance the good of mankind." Reginald. Have you read the documents connected with Mrs. Powell's case, Mr. Apathy ? Mr. Apathy. Yes.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1823 - 342 pages
...was born to study and to love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end, but, perhaps, for that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which...whose PUBLISHED LABOURS advance the good of mankind." One part of this unparalleled effusion turns on " the quality which ought to be in every licenser."... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 570 pages
...learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and truth, and perhaps, that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which...whose published labours advance the good of mankind." It is in this point of view that we may now, one and all, regard the author of Paradise Lost, and of... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and truth, and perhaps •that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which...whose published labours advance the good of mankind." The classical books, in which he is represented to have most delighted, were Homer, Ovid's Metamorphoses,... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 pages
...learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise, which...whose published labours advance the good of mankind." ; The classical books, in which he is represented to have most delighted, were Homer, Ovid's Metamorphoses,... | |
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... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have... 
