 | Thomas James Mathias - 1799 - 656 pàgines
...the ufual place, in the retreats of academick erudition, and in the feats of religion. Our peafantry now read the Rights of Man on .mountains, and moors, and by the way fide; and fliephercs make the analogy between their occupation and that of their governors. Happy indeed,... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1799 - 786 pàgines
...the ufual place, in the retreats of academick erudition, and in the feats of religion. Our peafantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way fide; and Qiepherds make the analogy between their occupation and that of their governors. Happy indeed,... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1801 - 608 pàgines
...the retreats of academic erudition, and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry nowread the Rights oj Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side ; and shepherds make the analog}' between their occupation and that of their governors. Happy indeed, had they been taught to... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1808 - 684 pàgines
...am scarcely able to name any man whom I consider as wholly ignorant. We no longer look exclusively for learned authors in the usual place, in the retreats...make the analogy between their occupation and that ol their governors. Happy indeed, had they been taught to make no other comparison. Our unsexed female... | |
 | 1927 - 954 pàgines
...nation, and Mathias grudgingly admitted in 1797, ' We no longer live in an age of ignorance. . . . Our peasantry now read The Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the wayside.' Thanks to Donaldson's final demolition in 1774 of the claim to perpetual copyright, there... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pàgines
...Press, 1957), p. 71. 10. Ibid., pp. 71-72; reactionary satirist TJ Mathias complained in 1797 that "our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the wayside" (quoted in Boulton, Language of Politics, p. 138) — a development that Wordsworth would... | |
 | Paul Keen - 1999 - 318 pàgines
...am scarcely able to name any man whom I consider as wholly ignorant. We no longer look exclusively for learned authors in the usual place, in the retreats...their governors. Happy indeed, had they been taught no other comparison. Our unsexed female writers now instruct or confuse us and themselves in the labyrinth... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pàgines
...the torchbearers of plebeian enlightenment. Alarmed by Paine - 'our peasantry,' whinged TJ Mathias, 'now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side' 17 - in May 1792 Pitt issued a proclamation against 'seditious writings'. Paine prudently fled, but... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pàgines
...the torchbearers of plebeian enlightenment. Alarmed by Paine - 'our peasantry,' whinged TJ Mathias, 'now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side'17 - in May 1792 Pitt issued a proclamation against 'seditious writings'. Paine prudently fled,... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - 2003 - 356 pàgines
...Anti-jacobin propagandists, keen to exploit the disreputability of such goings-on, sometimes made a fuss: 'Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side. . .,' TJ Mathias wailed in a widely read pamphlet: 'Our unsexed female writers now instruct, or confuse,... | |
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We no longer look for learned authors in the usual place, in the retreats of academic erudition and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry now read The Rights of Man on mountains and moors and by the wayside; and shepherds make the analogy between their... 
