 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...incjuire, and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar^ He wanders about the world without parade or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself. "I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no Great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...diversified by events. To talk in publick, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at n^ great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...diversified by events. To talk in public, to think iii solitude, to read and hear, to inquire and an swer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders...neither known nor valued but by men like himself." " I was born in the kingdom of Goiamu, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...solitude, to read and to hear, to enquire, and answer enquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wauders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from Ihe fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 pages
...events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to enquire and answer enquiries, is the business of a scholar : he wanders about the...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. "I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pages
...These literary characters are partially described by Johnson, not without a melancholy colouring. ' To talk in private, to think in solitude, to inquire...neither known nor valued, but by men like himself.' But eminent genius accomplishes a more ample design. He belongs to the world as much as to a nation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...little diversified by events. To talk in publick, to think in solitude, to read and hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He...neither known nor valued but by men like himself. " I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
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my history will not be long : the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar.... 
