 ... in which it is my chief ambition to excel. It is a painful confideration, that the profeffion of literature, by far the moft laborious of any, leads to no real benefit or true glory whatfoever. Poetry, Science, Letters, when they are not made the...  Works - Page 315by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1774 - 690 pages
...that branch of knowlege, in which it is my chief ambition to excel. It is a painful confederation, that the profeffion of literature, by far the moft...Science, Letters, when they are not made the fole bufinefs of life, may become its ornaments in profperity, and its moft pleafing confolation in a change... | |
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...that branch of knowlege, in which it is my chief ambition to excel. It is a painful confederation, that the profeffion of literature, by far the moft...Science, Letters, when they are not made the fole buQnefo of life, may become its ornaments in profperity, and its moft pleafing confolation in a change... | |
 | William Hayley - 1781 - 418 pages
...been lately lamented by an elegant and accompli/hed writer, who had too much reafon for the complaint, that " the profeffion " of Literature, by far the moft laborious of any, leads to no real be" nefit." Experience undoubtedly proves, that it has a* general tendency to impoverifh its votaries... | |
 | William Hayley - 1782 - 312 pages
...elegant and accomplifhed writer, who had too much reafon for the complaint, that " the profeflion " of Literature, by far the moft laborious of any, leads to no real be" nefit." Experience undoubtedly proves, that it has a general tendency to impoverifh its votaries... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 310 pages
...an elegant and accomplifhed writer, who had too much reafon for the complaint, that " the profelfion of Literature, by far " the moft laborious of any, leads to no real benefit." Experience undoubtedly proves, that it has a general tendency to impoverim its votaries ; and the legiflators... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1796 - 298 pages
...recommeud it to the eonfideration of every young man who feels the cacoethes fcribendi creeping on him. " The profeffion of literature, by far the moft laborious of any, leads to no real benefit ; poetry, fcieuce, and letters, when not made the fole bufinefs of life, «ay become its ornaments... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 460 pages
...laudable than the love of Truth, nothing more odious than the obftinacy of perfifting in Errour. Nor Ihall I eafily be induced, when I have difburdened myfelf...Science, Letters, when they are not made the fole bufinefs of life, may become its ornaments in profperity, and its moft pleafmg confolation in a change... | |
 | William Jones - 1993 - 452 pages
...refblution to make the fole objecl: of my life. Whatever then be the fate of this production, I fhall never be tempted to vindicate any part of it, which...Science, Letters, when they are not made the fole bufinefs of life, may become its ornaments in profperity, and its moft pleafing confolation in a change... | |
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