The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04

book is easy, to others not many are difficult: and surely they, whom

neither any exuberant praise bestowed by others, nor any eminent conquests over stubborn problems, have entitled to exalt themselves above the common orders of mankind, might condescend to imitate the candour of Socrates; and where they find incontestable proofs of superior genius, be content to think that there i...