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" We no longer look for learned authors in the usual place, in the retreats of academic erudition and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry now read The Rights of Man on mountains and moors and by the wayside; and shepherds make the analogy between their... "
The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues. With Notes - Page 244
by Thomas James Mathias - 1803 - 574 pages
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The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues. With Notes

Thomas James Mathias - 1799 - 656 pages
...the ufual place, in the retreats of academick erudition, and in the feats of religion. Our peafantry now read the Rights of Man on .mountains, and moors, and by the way fide; and fliephercs make the analogy between their occupation and that of their governors. Happy indeed,...
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Works of the Author of the Pursuits of Literature: Consisting Of: I ...

Thomas James Mathias - 1799 - 786 pages
...the ufual place, in the retreats of academick erudition, and in the feats of religion. Our peafantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way fide; and Qiepherds make the analogy between their occupation and that of their governors. Happy indeed,...
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The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with Notes

Thomas James Mathias - 1801 - 608 pages
...the retreats of academic erudition, and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry nowread the Rights oj Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side ; and shepherds make the analog}' between their occupation and that of their governors. Happy indeed, had they been taught to...
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The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with Notes

Thomas James Mathias - 1808 - 684 pages
...am scarcely able to name any man whom I consider as wholly ignorant. We no longer look exclusively for learned authors in the usual place, in the retreats...make the analogy between their occupation and that ol their governors. Happy indeed, had they been taught to make no other comparison. Our unsexed female...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 101

1927 - 954 pages
...nation, and Mathias grudgingly admitted in 1797, ' We no longer live in an age of ignorance. . . . Our peasantry now read The Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the wayside.' Thanks to Donaldson's final demolition in 1774 of the claim to perpetual copyright, there...
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Wordsworth's Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics

James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pages
...Press, 1957), p. 71. 10. Ibid., pp. 71-72; reactionary satirist TJ Mathias complained in 1797 that "our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the wayside" (quoted in Boulton, Language of Politics, p. 138) — a development that Wordsworth would...
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The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere

Paul Keen - 1999 - 299 pages
...am scarcely able to name any man whom I consider as wholly ignorant. We no longer look exclusively for learned authors in the usual place, in the retreats...their governors. Happy indeed, had they been taught no other comparison. Our unsexed female writers now instruct or confuse us and themselves in the labyrinth...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...the torchbearers of plebeian enlightenment. Alarmed by Paine - 'our peasantry,' whinged TJ Mathias, 'now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side' 17 - in May 1792 Pitt issued a proclamation against 'seditious writings'. Paine prudently fled, but...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...the torchbearers of plebeian enlightenment. Alarmed by Paine - 'our peasantry,' whinged TJ Mathias, 'now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side'17 - in May 1792 Pitt issued a proclamation against 'seditious writings'. Paine prudently fled,...
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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

Barbara Taylor - 2003 - 356 pages
...Anti-jacobin propagandists, keen to exploit the disreputability of such goings-on, sometimes made a fuss: 'Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side. . .,' TJ Mathias wailed in a widely read pamphlet: 'Our unsexed female writers now instruct, or confuse,...
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