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...me in that important article by two or three years at leait) at nineteen, I left the .univerllty oi Cambridge, where I was an abfolute pedant ; when I...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...

...nineteen, I left tlie univerfity of Cambridge, where 1 was an abfolnte pedant: when I talked my belt, I quoted Horace; when I aimed at being facetious,...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none buc the ancients had common fenfe ; that the Claflics contained every thing that was either neccflary,...

...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 was either neceflhry, ufeful,...

...came into the world, which was at the age you are of now ; fo that (by the way) you have got the (tart of me in that important article by two or three years...gentleman, I talked Ovid, • I was convinced that none tut the ancients had common fenfe ; that the claffics contained every thing that was either neceflary,...

...became, 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...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained every thing that was either necessary, or useful,...

...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...

...became, 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...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained every thing that was either necessary, or useful,...

...loved learning better than the art of savoir rirre), " I was an absolute pedant. When I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious,...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained everything that was necessary, useful, or ornamental...

...pedant. Wh I talked my best, I quoted Horace: when I aim at being facetious, I quoted Marshall; and whei had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense; that the classics contained every thing...