man of letters

• ““But I am a man of letters and understand Archedemus.””

  The Discourses of Epictetus

• “He was also a favourite in general society, though he is said to have been, next to Fenimore Cooper, the best-abused man of letters in America.”

  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

• “I mentioned the matter to Wilson, who said he had a man of letters in his eye one Lyon, a nonjuring clergyman of Glasgow.”

  Life of Adam Smith

• “By the end of the century he is mentioned by Francis Meres (q.v.) as the greatest man of letters of the day, and his name had become so valuable that it was affixed by unscrupulous publishers to works, e.g. Locrine, Oldcastle, and The Yorkshire”

  A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

• “The lady was a highly educated woman, and her husband, Doctor Westbrook, a man of letters as well as a preacher.”

  My Memories of Eighty Years

• “Benedetto Accolti (1532-49), a famous man of letters and historian, was imprisoned under Paul III for unknown reasons.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “It is a bitter, malignant, and often obscene invective against all the powers of the Byzantine Church and State, apparently the tardy revenge of an ill-conditioned man of letters for a lifetime of obsequiousness.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “My classmate at Yale in the class of 1856, John D. Champlin, a man of letters and an accomplished editor, rescued from my own scattered records and newspaper fiIes material for eight volumes.”

  My Memories of Eighty Years

• “An Abbé Morellet, a man of letters here to whom I had given a copy, got notice of this.”

  Letters

• “Nicolò Fortiguerra, a distinguished man of letters (d. 1739); the erudite Angelo Mai, secretary from 1833 to 1835.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

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