doctior

He at last imagines himself qualified to enter the world, and has met with adventures in his first sally, which I shall, by your paper, communicate to the publick. I am, &c. No. 195. Nescit equo rudis Haerere ingenuus puer, Venarique timet doctior, Seu Graeco jubeas trocho, Seu malis vetita legibus alea. HOR. Lib. iii. Ode xxiv. 54.

Samuel Johnson - The Works of Samuel Johnson

Hic ille est Grotius, majus quo doctior orbis Nil habuit; credo, nil habiturus erit: Gallia quem stupuit, stupuit quem Suecia, verus Qui Phoebus Delphis, orbe pharusque fuit. Salmasius, who so unmercifully fell foul of Grotius's memory, had formerly been one of his greatest admirers.

M. de (Jean Lévesque) Burigny - The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works

I? we turn from politics to what should be humaner literature, and look at the self-constituted censors of whatever has passed the press, there also we shall find that they who are the most incompetent assume the most authority, and that the public favour such pretensions; for in quackery of every kind, whether medical, political, critical, or hypocritical, quo quis impudentior eo doctior habetur.

Robert Southey - Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

And to render this digression from my own studies the less uneasy to my mind, I recollected and often thought of that rule in Lilly: Qui docet indoctos, licet indoctissimus esset, Ipse brevi reliquis doctior esse queat. He that the unlearned doth teach may quickly be More learned than they, though most unlearned he.

Thomas Ellwood - The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself

And to render this digression from my own studies, the less uneasy to my mind; I recollected, and often thought of, that Rule of LILLY Qui docet indoctos, licet indoctissimus esset, Ipse brevi reliquis, doctior esse queat. He that th'unlearned doth teach, may quickly be More learned than they, though most unlearned he. For a part of that shower reached us also.

- An English Garner: Critical Essays & Literary Fragments

Now, doctus, doctior, doctissimus, I am fair game on this point, so blaze away with everything but your saddle-bags, and I will laugh with the rest of you." A good-natured laugh welcomed this coming down. "Well," replied the doctor, "there can't be much more said." "I should like to know, young man," remarked Uncle Josh, "whether you raly got into the college, I should." "Well, Mr.

A. G. Riddle - Bart Ridgeley: A Story of Northern Ohio