 | Aristotle - 1797 - 440 pàgines
...concifenefs, that makes one imagine one is perufing a table of contents rather than a book: it taftes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic; for he has a violent affection for that art, being in fome fort his own invention ; fo that he often lofes himfelf in little trifling... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pàgines
...place, he is the hardest author by far 1 ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness, that malees one imagine one is perusing a table of contents rather...like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection for that art, being in some sort his own invention ; so that he often lose» himself in little trifling... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pàgines
...' first place, he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. 'Then he has a dry conciseness, that makes one imagine one is ' perusing a table of...so that he often loses himself in little trifling distinc' tions and verbal niceties ; and, what is worse, leaves you to ex' tricate him as well as you... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pàgines
...the first place, he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness, that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of...rather than a book: it tastes for all the world like chopp'd hay, or rather like chopp'd logic ; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pàgines
...have almost any of the genuine writings of that philosopher. Can that writer, whose " dry conciseness makes one imagine one is perusing a table of contents, rather than a book, and which tastes, for all the world, like chopped hay," be him of whom Cicero asserts, that he pours... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pàgines
...author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness, that makes one imagine one is pernsing a table of contents rather than a book : it tastes...loses himself in little trifling distinctions and verhal niceties ; and, what is worse, leaves you to extricate him as well as you can. Thirdly, he has... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 386 pàgines
...that Prince had received from him: " They are published," answered e — t' He has a dry conciseness, that makes one " imagine' one is perusing, a table of contents, rather " than a book."—Gray's Letters, Sect. 4. Let. 3. The account Mr. Gray there gives of Aristotle's writings,... | |
 | Aristotle - 1813 - 572 pàgines
...concifenefs, that makes one imagine one is perufing a table of contents rather than a book : it taftes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection for that art, being in fome fort his own invention ; fo that he often lofes himfelf in little trifling... | |
 | Aristotle - 1813 - 572 pàgines
...concifenefs, that makes one imagine one is perufing a table of contents rather than a book : it taftes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affee~lion for that art, being in fbme fort his own invention ; Ib that he often lofes himfelf in little... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pàgines
...the first place he is the hardest Author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of...the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logick; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some sort his own invention ; so that... | |
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In the first place he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of contents rather than a book ; it tastes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped... 
