 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...therefore more ftudious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it fufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of fail* was referved for another generation. Boethius, as prefident of the univerfity, enjoyed a revenue... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1785 - 400 pages
...therefore more ftudious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it fufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was referved for another generation. Boethius, as prefident of the univerfity, enjoyed a revenue of forty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...therefore more ftudious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boetbius thought it fufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was referved for another generation. Boetbius i Boetbtus, as president of the univerfity, & revenue of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...therefore more ftudious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it fufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was referved for another generation. Bcethius, as prcfident of the univerfity,1 enjoyed a revenue of forty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...therefore more ftudious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it fufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was refer ved for another generation. Boethius, as prefident of the univerfity, enjoyed a revenue of forty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...elegance than of truth. The contemporaries ol Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the ancien's had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was reserved for another generation. Boethius, as president ot the university, enjoyed a revenue of forty Scottish marks, about two pounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...therefore more ftudious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it fufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was referved for another generation. Boetfous, as prefident of the univerfity, enjoyed £ revenue of forty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...therefore more ftudious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it fufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of fails was referved for another generation. Boethius, Boethius, as prefident of the univerfity, enjoyed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...speak rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the...ancients had delivered ; the examination of tenets and facts was reserved for another generation. I Western Islands, p.1 zS. In nations where there is hardly... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 668 pages
...most part learning to speak rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The cotemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient...examination of tenets and of facts was reserved for another genera ion." Arbroat! Aberbrothock or Arbroath, situated at the estuary of a stream called the Brothock,... | |
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... darkness, were too much dazzled with its light to see any thing distinctly. The first race of scholars in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for the most part, learning to speak, rather than to think, and were therefore more studious... 
