 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pagina’s
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance; all...the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients.1 While an authour is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when... | |
 | Joseph Candido - 1999 - 310 pagina’s
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 | Samuel Johnson - 2004 - 68 pagina’s
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 | Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 612 pagina’s
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 | Nichol D. Smith - 2006 - 396 pagina’s
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1940 - 638 pagina’s
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Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved without considering that time... 
