| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...— also falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place ; t ? * The ibr it.' During' his confinement, it is said, writing materials wure denied him, and Smart used to... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I 'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another...Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour 1 ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....continued. " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour1; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; l hazards, to put down the fust instances that occurred...friends could have suggested many of a superior qu labour1; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." Smart undoubtedly possessed considerable genius ; as a satirist, he anticipated the poignant vein of... | |
| Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...squeeze the hcautil'ul roundness of their natural shapes into a square form of the same kind. SMITH. MANKIND have a great aversion to intellectual labour,...content to be ignorant than would take even a little tiouble to acquire it JOHNSON. DEPENDANCE OF MAN UPON HIS CREATOR. FOR the continuance of life a thousand... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...(also falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place) ; .h . . It« be did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." During; bis confinement, it is said,... | |
| James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....continued. " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour1; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1850 - 502 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I 'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen: and I have no passion for it." Poor Smart, whose distresses continued to the last, died within the rules of the Queen's Bench Prison,... | |
| Joseph Leech - 1850 - 284 pages
...questioned Dr. Johnson's piety than when he said, speaking of Kit Smart, "another charge against him was he did not love clean linen, and I have no passion for it;" a proof that the sage knew nothing of a luxury that surpassed even his leg of pork and plums. For my... | |
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