vulgus
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More of a concio ad vulgus than the former, it shows a pretty obvious endeavour to soften and popularise, without unduly vulgarising, the academic tone of the earlier work.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
The old maxim recorded by Bacon, "Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes,"—"We should speak as the vulgar, but think as the wise," is not to be taken without some limitation.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
For the next four weeks you will consort with the profanum vulgus in your House Common Room, where I fancy that bridge and other intellectual pursuits are not much cultivated.
From A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
He knew, and they knew perfectly well that, whatever the vulgus profanum may think, my real work was the critical edition of Sâyana’s commentary on the Rig-veda.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Nor had he before less happily rendered the 39th verse of the second Aeneid: Scinditur in certum studia in contraria vulgus.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
