 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 pages
...inspectorgeneral of the bridges and highways, architect and administrator of the general hospital. * the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets...and of facts was reserved for another generation," 1 BOGAN (ZACHAHY), a learned and pious writer of the seventeenth century, was the son of William Bogan,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 pages
...inspectorgeneral of the bridges and highways, architect and administrator of the general hospital. * the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets...and of facts was reserved for another generation." ' BOGAN (ZACHAUY), a learned and pious writer of the seventeenth century, was the son of William Bogan,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the...and of facts was reserved for another generation. the present age of trade and taxes, it is difficult even for the imagination so to raise the value... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 544 pages
...to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethiu* thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had...and of facts was reserved for another generation." * BOFFRAND (GERMAIN), a celebrated French architect, was the son of a sculptor, and of a sister of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the...and of facts was reserved for another generation. Boethius, as president of the university, enjoyed a revenue of forty Scottish marks, about two pounds... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1818 - 512 pages
...think, and consequently were more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boecius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and facts were reserved for another generation." % On this occasion, the magistrates and town council of... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1818 - 520 pages
...think, and consequently were more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boecius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and facts were reserved for another generation." J On this occasion, the magistrates and town council of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 pages
...to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Bosthius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had...and of facts was reserved for another generation. Bcethius, as president of the university, enjoyed a revenue of forty Scottish merks, about two pounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 pages
...rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of teneti and of facts was reserved for another generation. Boethius, as president of the university enjoyed... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 pages
...rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the...and of facts was reserved for another generation." KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN. The king's college is a large group of buildings in a quadrangular form,... | |
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... darkness, were too much dazzled with its light to see any thing distinctly. The first race of scholars in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for the most part, learning to speak, rather than to think, and were therefore more studious... 
