 I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.  The Universal Magazine - Page 31807Full view - About this book
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 pages
...training his readers to be good, according to the unchallengeable dictates of revelation. "I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." Addison... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...most epics had shriveled. An immense if quiet pride suffuses the Rambler's farewell. "I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth" (5: 320).... | |
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