 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 pages
...be excused in an age, when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising on the world; but ages so long accustomed to 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...result. Life of Dryden. When learning was first rising on the world, in the fifteenth century, ages so long accustomed to darkness were too much dazzled with its light to see any thing distinctly. The first race of scholars, hence, for the most part, were learning to speak... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 668 pages
...be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising on the world ; but ages so long accustomed to 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pages
...excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising on the world; but ages «o long accustomed to 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 588 pages
...be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising on the world ; but ages, so long accustomed to 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,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pages
...excused in an age, when all men were credulous; Learning was then rising on the •world ; but ages i so long accustomed to darkness, were too much dazzled with its light, to see any thing distinctly. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 pages
...may be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising in the world; but ages so long accustomed to 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... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pages
...be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising in. the world, but ages so long accustomed to 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...may be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising on the world; but ages so long accustomed to" 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning was then rising on the world ; but ages so long accustomed to 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,... | |
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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 of elegance than of truth. 
