 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...confider himfelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciencesj and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, mutt,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...confider himfelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciences; and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, muft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...confider himfelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperier to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciences ; and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, muft,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...confider himfelf as prefaling over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he mult know many languages and many iciences ; anc!, that his Ityle may be worthy of his thoughts, mull,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...confider himfelf as preliJing over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he milt know many languages and many Iciences; and, that his ilvlc may be worthy of his thoughts, mull,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...confider himlelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciences ; and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, muft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of...Generations; as a being superior to time and place. many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by incessant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labor is not yet at an end : he must know. many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of...thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...mean genius, of some of its fashionable professors. The true Poet, as Johnson says, f " must write as the interpreter of Nature, and ' the legislator...generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The originality of distortion ; and the false glare of unnatural combinations, is, indeed, a puerile... | |
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He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. 
