 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 str.
...Steele is the greateft fchelar and bed cafuift of any man in England. ' Laftly, his writings have fet all our wits and men of letters upon a new way of...little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet fay that any of them have come op to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 490 str.
...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...though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up tothe beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 str.
...that captain Steele is the greatest scholar and best casuist of any man in England. they had littie or no notion before; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up 10 the beauties of the original, I think we may venturf to affirm, that every one of them writes and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 str.
...most welcome guest at tea-tables and assemblies, and if relished and caressed by the merchants on the Change. " Lastly, his writings have set all our wits...which they had little or no notion before ; and though tve cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 str.
...scarce produced half the good as flowed from the Spectator of a day." — " These writings here set nil our wits and men of letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they hail but little or no notion brfore — Every one of tliera writes and thinks much more justly than... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 str.
...verily persuaded, that Captain Steele is the greatest scholar and hest casuist of any man in England. Lastly, his writings have set all our wits and men...of thinking, of which they had little or no notion hefore ; and though we cannot yet say ill that any of them have come up to the heauties of the :j original,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 384 str.
...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...letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they had Kttle or Do notion before ; and though we Cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 str.
...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...thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; nnd though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think... | |
 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 566 str.
...convinced our fops and young fellows of the value and advantages of learning." — And again: " These writings have set all our wits and men of letters...the original, I think we may venture to affirm that even7 one of them writes and thinks more justly than they did some time since." This testimony is highly... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1867 - 316 str.
...inventor. He gave a new form to our literature ; or, as it is quaintly put by one of his contemporaries, " his " writings have set all our wits and men of letters " upon a new way of thinking." STERNE. LTHOUGH much has been written on Humour, and very many acute observations have been made on... | |
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... 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. 
