 | Henry Fielding - 1809 - 578 pages
...there is another sort of knowledge, heyond the power of learning to hestow, and this is to he had hy conversation. So necessary is this to the understanding...them than those learned pedants, whose lives have heen entirely consumed in colleges, and among hooks; for however exquisitely human nature may have... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...numbers to their works, were both historians of our order, and masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another. sort of knowledge,...exquisitely .human nature may have been described by'Writers, the true practical system can be learnt only in .the world. Indeed, the like happens in... | |
 | Henry Fielding - English literature - 1832 - 438 pages
...numbers to their works, were both liistonans of our order, and masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another sort of knowledge,...power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had by conversations. So necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 514 pages
...numbers to their works, were both historians of our order, and masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another sort of knowledge,...power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had by conversations. So necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 498 pages
...numbers to their works, were both historians of our order, and masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another sort of knowledge,...the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be Jiad by.conversatioui. So necessary is this to the understauding the characters of men, that none are... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1861 - 506 pages
...to their works, were both historians of our order, and masters of all the learning of their tiii.es. Again, there is another sort of knowledge, beyond...power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had by conversations. So necessary is this to the understanding the characters if men, that none are more... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1868 - 280 pages
...nor law are to be practically known from books, and none are more ignorant of the characters of men than those learned pedants, whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books.* The mere reader may be virtually ignorant, because unable to use what he knows. Mere words and facts,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1871 - 598 pages
...numbers to their works, were both historians of our order, and masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another sort of knowledge,...entirely consumed in colleges, and among books ; for VOL. VI. NN however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1872 - 748 pages
...numbers to their works, were both historians of our order, and masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another sort of knowledge,...are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whoso lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 700 pages
...numbers to their works, were both historians of our order, were masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another sort of knowledge,...conversation. So necessary is this to the understanding of the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives... | |
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Again, there is another sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had by conversation. So necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants, whose... 
