 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Страниц: 462
...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. He...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. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Страниц: 456
...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. He...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. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Страниц: 278
...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. He...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. My father... | |
 | 1820 - Страниц: 286
...solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. •Qle wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himselfrT? I was born in the kingdom "of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - Страниц: 312
...father-genius. These literary characters are partially, and with a melancholy colouring, exhibited by JOHNSON. " To talk in private, to think in solitude, to inquire...neither known nor valued but by men like himself." Thus thought this great writer during those sad probationary years of genius, when " Slow rises worth,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Страниц: 764
...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. He...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. My father... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - Страниц: 246
...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. He...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. — Basselas. EPITAPH ON THE POET GAY, In Westminster Abbey, 1732. In manners gentle; of affections... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1827 - Страниц: 160
...public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and to answer inquiries, is the busi»ess of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in tl-e kingdom of Goima, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1833 - Страниц: 162
...diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to mquire, and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar....neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Gojma, at no great distance from the fountain- of the Nile. My father... | |
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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.... 
