 ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.  The British Essayists: Tatler - Pàgina xlvieditat per - 1823Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1889 - 466 pàgines
...verily persuaded that Captain Steele ia the greatest scholar and best casuist of any man in England. " Lastly, his writings have set all our wits and men...beauties of the original, I think we may venture to a! Una that every one of them writes and think11 much more justly than they did some time since." two... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 pàgines
...verily persuaded that Captain STEELE is the greatest Scholar and best Casuist of any man in England. Lastly, his writings have set all our Wits and Men of Letters on a new way of Thinking, of which they had little or no notion before: and, although we cannot say... | |
 | Joseph Marino, Melinda Wilcox Schlitt - 2001 - 540 pàgines
...Learning": Gay, Present State of Wit, pp. 13-14. Another kind of success pertained to matters of taste: "Lastly, His Writings have set all our wits and Men...of which they had little or no Notion before; and tho' we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the Beauties of the Original, 1 think we may... | |
 | 1887 - 848 pàgines
...about 1712, had much to do to counteract this depraved state of morality. The historian states: "These writings have set all our wits and men of letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they had but little notion before." We contrast the spirit of Masonry of to-day with that of the spirit of the... | |
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