 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1752 - 500 sider
...improvement in private and in public virtue. An application to any ftudy, that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens,...beft but a fpecious and ingenious fort of idlenefs, to ufe an expreffion of TILLOTSON: and the knowledge we acquire by it is a creditable kind of ignorance,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 376 sider
...improvement in private and in public virtue. An application to any ftudy, that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens,...beft but a fpecious and ingenious fort of idlenefs, to ule an exprefSoDr of Tillotfon : And the knowledge we acquire by it is a creditable kind of ignorance,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1777 - 382 sider
...private ;and in public virtue. Au application to any ftudy, that tends neither directly nor indireclly to make us better men and better citizens, is at beft but a fpecious and ingenious fort of idlenefs, to ufe an expreffion of Tilloifon; and the knowledge we acquire by it, is a creditable kind of ignorance,... | |
 | Henry Saint-John Bolingbroke - 1791 - 314 sider
...improvement in private and in public virtue. An application to any ftudy, that tends neither diredlly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens , is at bed but a fpecious and ingenious fort of idlenefs , to ufe an expreffion of TI^LOTSON : and the knowledge... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1793 - 570 sider
...improvement ift \ ' private and in public virtue. An application to any ftudy that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens,...beft but a fpecious and ingenious fort of idlenefs, to ufe an expreffion of Tillotfon : and the knowledge we acquire by it i's a creditable kind .of ignorance,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 sider
...private and in public virtue. An application to any ftuJy, that tends neither direftly nor indireilly to make us better men, and better citizens, is at beft but a fpecious and ingenious fort of idlcnefs, to ufe an expreffion of Tillotfon: and the knowledge we acquire is a creditable kind of ignorance,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 486 sider
...improvement in private and in publick virtue. An application to any study that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens, is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, to use an expression of Tillotson : and the knowledge... | |
 | Madness - 1810 - 510 sider
...improvement in private and in public •virtue. An application to any study that tends, neither directly nor indirectly, to make us better men and better citizens, is, at best, but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, to use an expression of Tillotsoo ; and the knowledge... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 sider
...improvement in private and in public virtue. An application to any study, that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men, and better citizens, is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, to use an expression of Tillotson: and the knowledge... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 sider
...improvement in private and in public virtue. An application to any study, that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men, and better citizens, is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, to use an expression of Tillotson ; and the knowledge... | |
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An application to any study, that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens, is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, to use an expression of Tillotson ; and the knowledge we acquire by it is a creditable... 
