 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 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,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants, which I have mentioned, the book pedant is much the most supportable... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 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,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants, which I have mentione.d, the book pedant is much the most supportable... | |
 | A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 pages
...kings of Spajn 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,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants which I have mentioned, the book pedant is much the most supportable... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 450 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,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants which I have mentioned,1 the book pedant is much the most supportable... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants, which I have mentioned, the book pedant is much the most supportable;... | |
 | 1906 - 578 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,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants which I have mentioned, the book pedant is much the most supportable;... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 pages
...kings of Spain or Poland, ho 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,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants, which I have mentioned, the book pedant is much the most supportable... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1914 - 262 pages
...kings of Spain or 15 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,...insipid pedantic character and equally ridiculous. Of all the species of pedants which I have mentioned, 20 the book pedant is much the most supportable.... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...give it every one that does not know how to think out of his profession and particular way of life. In short, a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. *** It is no wonder if a great deal of knowledge, which is not capable of making a man wise, has a... | |
 | Henry Waters Taft - 1927 - 104 pages
...mankind; "the state pedant," who is "wrapped up in news, and lost in politics." "In short," Addison adds, "a mere courtier, a mere soldier, a mere scholar,...insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous." Today he would have included the golfer, the movie "fan," the advocate of Prohibition or Anti-Prohibition... | |
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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 anything, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridiculous. 
