 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,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler - Seite 20von Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Grant - 1871 - 478 Seiten
...neither Chronicles nor Magazines, neither Gazettes nor Advertisers, neither Journals nor Evening Posts. All foreigners remark that the knowledge of the common...people of England is greater than that of any other country. This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence which are continually... | |
 | James Grant - 1871 - 490 Seiten
...neither Chronicles nor Magazines, neither Gazettes nor Advertisers, neither Journals nor Evening Posts. All foreigners remark that the knowledge of the common...people of England is greater than that of any other country. This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence which are continually... | |
 | Fitzedward Hall - 1873 - 430 Seiten
...Since ideal does not mean ' containing ideas ', unideal cannot mean ' void of ideas ', ' idealess '. " All foreigners remark, that the knowledge of the common...people of England is greater than that of any other vulaar." The Idler, No. 7. whether there was not a close analogy, here and there, between the language... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1875 - 342 Seiten
...vchicles of intelligence, see the remarks of Johnson in the Idler, No. 7, 27 May, 1758. He there says — 'All foreigners remark that the knowledge of the common people of England is greaterthan that of any other vulgar. This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence... | |
 | 1892 - 568 Seiten
...turn then to The Idler, No. 7, which appeared in May 1758 : 'All foreigners remark,' says the writer, 'that the knowledge of the common people of England is greater than that of any other vulgar . . .' and then he goes on to observe that ' this universal diffusion of instruction is, perhaps, not... | |
 | 1883 - 396 Seiten
...Bibliotheque de feu M. A. Van Bellingen d'Anvers.) THE BIBLIOGRAPHER. MAY, 1883. THE LONDON GAZETTE. JILL foreigners remark that the knowledge of the common...England is greater than that of any other vulgar. This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of intelligence which are continually trickling among... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1887 - 426 Seiten
...held as a comparatively educated population. ' All foreigners remark,' says a periodical of 1758, ' 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... | |
 | 1916 - 884 Seiten
...knowledge of the common poople 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." About the same time, the lexicographer, recalling the classic definition of an ambassador, pronounces... | |
 | Archibald Edward Dobbs - 1919 - 284 Seiten
...villages of his district with conjectures on the events of the war.' " All foreigners,' he adds, ' 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... | |
 | 1926 - 564 Seiten
...not a more potent educative force than the school. " All foreigners," said Johnson, in the Idler, " remark that the knowledge of the common people of England is greater than that of any other vulgar " ; fa statement which Voltaire corroborated in 1763. The Doctor held that " this superiority we undoubtedly... | |
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