 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....  Disraeli's Works - Page 25de Isaac Disraeli - 1881Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pages
...diversified by events. JTo talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to (inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. (He...terror, and is (neither known nor valued but by men like himself1." ' What petter or wiser guide could be found in the choice of life? \Vhat then is the result... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 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.' Rasseias, ch. s. Schoolboys' happiness : ' DR. JOHNSON maintained that a boy at school was the happiest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pages
...diversified by events. To talk in pub10 lie, 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 15 distance from the fountain of the Nile. My father... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 256 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...terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men 20 like himself. "I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great distance from the fountain of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...remark of Imlac : ' To talk in public, s to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar....neither known nor valued but by men like himself.' ' Johnson here shows both the courage and the quiet unemulous dignity that accompanies all true scholarship.... | |
 | National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - 1954 - 292 pages
...sentence in Rasselas: "To talk in public, to think in private, 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." All too often an eagerness to leave a post comes from emotional impatience at the insufferable repetition... | |
 | 1907 - 506 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... | |
 | 1759 - 438 pages
...think in folitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and anfwer inquiries, is the bufmefs of a fcholar : He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himfelf. < I was born in the kingdom of Goiama, at no great diftance from the fountain of the Nile... | |
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