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" ... scoffing. For to all the observations of the Ancients we have our own experience, which if we will use, and apply, we have better means to pronounce. It is true, they opened the gates, and made the way, that went before us; but as guides, not commanders:... "
The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a ... - Page 154
by Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 19

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...tunes. Id. Wmttr'iTalt. Nothing conduces more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, provided the plagues of judging and pronouncing against them be away; such as envy, hitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. Btn J onion. It is barbarous incivility,...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...flowery light ; where they may take the eye, and be taken by the hand. AUTHORITY OF ANTIQUITY. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to...judging and pronouncing against them be away ; such as envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. For to all the observations of the...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...flowery light ; where they may take the eye, and be taken by the hand. AUTHORITY OF ANTIQUITY. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to...trust from them ; provided the plagues of judging ¡nul pronouncing against them be away ;. such as envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...flowery light ; where they may take the eye, and be taken by the hand. AUTHORITY OF ANTIQUITY. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to examine the writings of tho ancients, and not to rest in their sole authority, or take all upon trust from them ; provided...
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Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...in his reason what he accounts it and will make it. B. JONSON 536. NON NIMIUM CREDENDUM ANTIQUITATL I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to...are envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence and scurrile scoffing. For to all the observations of the ancients we have our own experience; which if...
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The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and ..., Volume 9

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pages
...abler still. Men are decayed, and studies : she is not. XXI. Non nimium credendum antiquitati. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to examine the writings of the ancieijls, and not to rest in their sole authority, or take 'aliupon trust from them ; provided the...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...whom we converse. HUME. Nothing conduces more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, provided the plagues of judging and pronouncing against them be away; such as envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. BEN JONSON. They think that whatever...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...whom we converse. HUME. Nothing conduces more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. BEN JONSON. They think that whatever...
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A Study of Ben Jonson

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 206 pages
...Shakespeare — if his good friend Ben had but known it. the composition of his Roman tragedies, ' than to examine the writings of the ancients, and not to rest on their sole authority, or take all upon trust from them ; provided the plagues of judging and pronouncing...
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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ...

Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...strength is abler still, Men are decayed, and studies : she is not'. Non nimium credendum antiquitati. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters than to...are envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurrile scoffing. For to all the observations of the ancient: we have our own experience, which if...
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