 It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far greater part of the other eminent men of letters, both of Greece and Rome, appear to have been either public or private teachers ; generally...  The Quarterly review - Page 1711826Full view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 pages
...its most eminent men of letters. It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far...appear to have been either public or private teachers ; generally either of philosophy or of rhetoric. This remark will be found to hold true, from the days... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 554 pages
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 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 542 pages
...perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few hiftorians, the far greater part of the other eminent men of letters, both of Greece and v, Rome, appear to have been either public or private teachers ; generally either of philofophy or... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 854 pages
...is the education most likely to render him a man of solid learning ;' and that, ' if we except the poets, a few orators and a few historians, the far...be found to hold true from the days of Lysias and I Socrates, of Plato and Aristotle, down to those of Plutarch and Epictetus, of -Suetonius and Quintilian.'*... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1827 - 218 pages
...its most eminent men of letters. " It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far...appear to have been either public or private teachers; generally either of philosophy or of rhetoric. M 178 This remark will be found to hold true, from the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 374 pages
...its most eminent men of letters. " It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far...appear to have been either public or private teachers ; generally either of philosophy or of rhetoric. This remark will be found to hold true, from the days... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...l>een that, if we except tile poets, a few orators, arid a few historians, the far greater part ol the other eminent men of letters, both of Greece and...appear to have been either public or private teachers ; generally cithcf of philosophy or of rhetoric. Tlus remark will be found to hold true, from the days... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...its most eminent men of letters. It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far...appear to have been either public or private teachers; generally either of philosophy or of rhetoric. This remark will be found to hold true from the days... | |
 | George Howe - 1844 - 262 pages
...and a few historians," saysAdam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, " the far greater part of the other men of letters, both of Greece and Rome, appear to have been either public or private teachers ;, this remark will be found to hold true, from the days of Lysias and Isocrates,. of Plato and Aristotle,... | |
 | George Howe - 1844 - 270 pages
...and a few historians," says Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, " the far greater part of the other men of letters, both of Greece and Rome, appear to have been either public or private teachers; this remark will be found to hold true, from the days of Lysias and Isocrates, of Plato and Aristotle,... | |
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