 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 Seiten
...in private, to think in solitude, to inquire or to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself." Thus during his early and saddened years did Johnson describe the fate of those who labour... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 Seiten
...in private, to think in solitude, to inquire or to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself.' But eminent Genius accomplishes a more ample design. He belongs to the world as much as to... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 Seiten
...in private, to think in solitude, to inquire or to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror ; and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself." Thus thought this great writer during those sad probationary years of genius, when " Slow... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 Seiten
...in private, to think in solitude, to inquire or to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror ; and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself." Thus thought this great writer during those gad probationary years of genius, when " Blow... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 Seiten
...in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and answer inquiries , is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself. (( I was born in the kingdom of Goiama , at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 Seiten
...think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself. "I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile.... | |
 | Horae - 1851 - 414 Seiten
...Scholar. jj O talk in private, to think in folitude, to inquire or to anfwer inquiries, is the bufinefs of a fcholar. He wanders about the world without pomp...neither known nor valued but by men like himfelf. — DR. JOHNSON. Calumny. |E that lends an eafy and credulous ear to calumny, is either a man of very•... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1853 - 510 Seiten
...colouring, exhihited hy JOHNSON. or to answer inquiries, is the husiness of a scholar. He wanders ahout the world without pomp or terror ; and is neither known nor valued hut hy men like himself." Thus thought this great writer during those sad prohationary years of genius,... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1851 - 558 Seiten
...in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself." Such, however, was not the case with Sir William Jones, notwithstanding his extraordinary... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 452 Seiten
...in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Groima, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile.... | |
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my history will not be long: the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar.... 
