| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably ; but if you go out of the Gazette *, you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants,... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably ; but if you go out of the Gazette *, you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably; but if you go out of the Gazette, you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably; but if you go out of the Gazette, you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland , he talks very notably ; but if you go out of the gazette, you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants,... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...Kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably ; but if you go out of the Gazette,* you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants,... | |
| 1822 - 788 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably ; but if you go out ol the Gazette, you drop him. In them drawn up in squadrons and battalions, or engaged in the any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pages
...Kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably; but if you go out of the Gazette,* you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is aninsipidpedanticcharacter, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants, which... | |
| 1824 - 284 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably; but if you go out of the Gazette, you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar,. a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, he talks very notably ; but if you go out of the Gazette, you drop him. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar, a mere any thing, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants,... | |
| |