 ... barbarity. His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - 22 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1800 - 288 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 ページ
...are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused...the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, forthemostpart, learningto speak, rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1818 - 512 ページ
...are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning had then made but slow progress in the .world,. and ages so long accustomed to darkness were too much... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1818 - 520 ページ
...are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous. Learning had then made but slow pTogrets in the world, and ages so Iftng accustomed to darkne? -. were too much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 ページ
...are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was'the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused...light to see any thing distinctly. The first race of scholar.: in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for the most part, learning to speak,... | |
 | Hector Boece - 1821 - 466 ページ
...fables not discarded, it can only be said, in apology for the venerable Archdean, that some degree of credulity may be excused, in an age when all men were credulous. REV. L. ADAMSON, Cupar, Fife. LIBRARY or THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES. GABRIEL ALEXANDER, ESQ. Advocate.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 ページ
...are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused...distinctly. The first race of scholars in the fifteenth ceptury, and some time after, were, for the most part, learning to speak, rather than to think, and... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 ページ
...are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous, [^earning was then rising on the world; but ages, so long accustomed to darkness, were too much dazzled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 ページ
...are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made : but his credulity may be excused in an age •• hen all men were credulous. Learning was then rising on the world ; but ages so long accustomed... | |
 | William Stewart, Hector Boece - 1858 - 710 ページ
...alike unthought of and unpractised. Dr. Johnson has righteously observed, in regard to Boece, that " his credulity may be excused in " an age when all men were credulous " The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient " to know what the ancients had delivered. The... | |
 | Hector Boece - 1858 - 692 ページ
...alike unthought of and unpractised. Dr. Johnson lias righteously observed, in regard to Boece, that " his credulity may be excused in " an age when all men were credulous. .... " The contemporaries ,of Boethius thought it sufficient " to know what the ancients had delivered.... | |
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