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He defended his remark upon the general insufficiency of education in Scotland ;
and confirmed to me the authenticity of his witty saying on the learning of the
Scotch ; — “ Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a
little ...
He defended his remark upon the general insufficiency of education in Scotland ;
and confirmed to me the authenticity of his witty saying on the learning of the
Scotch ; — “ Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a
little ...
Page 108
That they are too rich is certainly not true ; for they have nothing good enough to
keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign Universities a
professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his ...
That they are too rich is certainly not true ; for they have nothing good enough to
keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign Universities a
professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his ...
Page 412
His distinction of the different degrees of attainment of learning was thus marked
upon two occasions . Of Queen Elizabeth he said , She had learning enough to
have given dignity to a Bishop : ' and of Mr. Thomas Davies he said , Sir , Davies
...
His distinction of the different degrees of attainment of learning was thus marked
upon two occasions . Of Queen Elizabeth he said , She had learning enough to
have given dignity to a Bishop : ' and of Mr. Thomas Davies he said , Sir , Davies
...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Henry Richard Tedder |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | Percy Fitzgerald |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2020 |
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