Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics,... The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Seite 289von George Campbell - 1849 - 455 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 Seiten
...practical mechanical operations. But the world would soon be sensible of its usefulness. ... Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology,... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 Seiten
...flattered himself that a more noble, exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labor, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 Seiten
...flattered himself that a more noble, exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labor, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 Seiten
...flattered himself that a more noble, exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labor, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1919 - 740 Seiten
...flattered himself that a more noble exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study. He then led me to the frame, about the sides whereof... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 Seiten
...flattered himself that a more noble exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Everyone knew er not the tasks labor, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 Seiten
...flattered himself that a more noble exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.' He then led me to the frame, about the sides whereof... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 Seiten
...flattered himself that a more noble exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.1 He then led me to the frame, about the sides whereof... | |
| Herbert Wildon Carr - 1922 - 378 Seiten
...learning." One of these was a professor who had contrived an ingenious machine, by means of which " the most ignorant person at a reasonable charge and...philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics and theology, without the least assistance from genius and study." The professor's pupils were engaged in breaking... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1923 - 596 Seiten
...manipulate the ingenious invention of the learned professor. "Everyone knew," as we read in Gulliver, "how laborious the usual method is of attaining to...person at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labor, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the... | |
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