...with its present aspect, and with the degree of attention and respect it has succeeded in winning from "an age so devoted to the pursuit of gain that it...has not a tendency to promote some pecuniary end." The fact of its having struggled against popular prejudice, ignorance, and envy, and against other...

...perhaps, to excite surprise. These complaints, though founded in error, appeal to the prejudices of un age possessed with such a love of innovation, that...experience, merely because they are ancient; of an age •o devoted to the pursuit of gain, that it regards with little favor what has not a tendency to promote...

...the complaints made of the devotion to classical learning of so great a portion of the time of youth, ought not, perhaps, to excite surprise. These complaints,...to the pursuit of gain, that it regards with little favour what has not a tendency to promote some pecuniary end ; as there were nothing suited to advance...

...aspect, and with the degree of attention and respect it has succeeded in winning to itself, from " an age so devoted to the pursuit of gain, that it regards with little favour what has not a tendency to promote some pecuniary end." In truth, the advancement of sound learning,...

...aspect, and with the degree of attention and respect it has succeeded in winning to itself, from ' an age so devoted to the pursuit of gain, that it regards with little favour what lias not a tendency to promote some pecuniary end.' " In truth, the advancement of sound...