 | 1767 - 572 Seiten
...When I talked my beft, " I talked Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial j •' and when I had a mind' to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was ff convinced that none but the antients had common fenfe ; that the claffics •« contained every... | |
 | 1774 - 622 Seiten
...tlie univerfity of Cambridge, where 1 was an abfolnte pedant: when I talked my belt, I quoted Horace; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial...mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none buc the ancients had common fenfe ; that the Claflics contained every thing that... | |
 | 1774 - 428 Seiten
....univerllty oi Cambridge, where I was an abfolute pedant ; when I talked my beft, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial...when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovijj. I was convinced that .none but the ancients had common fenfe; that the daffies contained every... | |
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 642 Seiten
...when I talked my bed, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when'I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common fenfe ; that the dailies contained every thing that... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1800 - 418 Seiten
...univerlity of Cambridge, where I was an abfolute pedant : when I talked my beft, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial...mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the antients had common fenfe ; that the Claflics contained every thing that... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1801 - 474 Seiten
...univerfity of Cambridge, where I was an abfolute pedant : when I talked my beft, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial...mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid, • I was convinced that none tut the ancients had common fenfe ; that the claffics contained every thing that... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1804 - 404 Seiten
...univerfity of Cambridge, where I was an abfolute pedant : when I talked my beft, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial...mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the antients had common fenfe ; that the Claffics contained every thing that... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - 1810 - 456 Seiten
...Martial ; and when I had a mind to he a fine gentleman, 1 talked Ovid. I was convinced that none hut the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained every thing that was either necessary, nseful, or ornamental to men; and 1 was not without thonghts of wearing the toga mrt/i) of the Romans,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 518 Seiten
...according to his own account, an absolute pedant. " When I talked my best," he says, "I talked Horace; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial;...mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained every thing that... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 Seiten
...was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horaee ; when I aimed at being faeetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was eonvineed that none but the" *neieuti had eommon sense ; that the elassies eontained evtrv Ee2 thing... | |
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I was an absolute pedant; when I talked my best, I quoted Horace; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. 
