 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 sider
...be the profits of life, give me the amufements of it. The people I behold all around me, it feems, know all this and more, and yet I do not know one of them who infpires me wirh any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge, but formerly... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1794 - 492 sider
...the profits of live, give me the amufeinents of it. The people I behold all around me , it feeiiiS, know all this and more, and yet I do not know one of them who infpires me with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge , but formerly... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 sider
...cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it." Perhaps the three modern writers who possessed the most universal genius were Leibnitz, l^Uton, and... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1804 - 192 sider
...see in too much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it." Perhaps the three modern writers who possessed the most universal genius were Leibnitz, Milton, and... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 sider
...cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...I do not know one of them who inspires me with any amhition of being like him. Surely it was of this place (now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name... | |
 | 1829 - 558 sider
...see in too much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...the amusements of it. The people I behold all around oie, it seems, know all this and more, and yet I do not know one of them who inspires me with any ambition... | |
 | 1836 - 558 sider
...see in too much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was not this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet spoke when... | |
 | 1891 - 874 sider
...I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthincs to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it. We get a fairly good idea of one side of Gray from this ; but we may add to it a more complete portrait... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 sider
...in " too much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, " but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...inspires me with any ambition of being like him." Gray's H'orfa, Ed. Mitford (1835), ii. 7-9. " Gray regretted his want of mathematical knowledge," says... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 sider
...determination not to take a degree. ' It is very possible,' he said, ' that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...inspires me with any ambition of being like him.' Contempt of knowledge is always based upon ignorance. In his riper manhood he regretted his want of... | |
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It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements of it. 
