 ... with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the...  Rasselas: A Tale - Sivu 34tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 155 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 sivua
...inexhaustible variety: for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will have most powe.r...unexpected instruction. "All the appearances of nature I xvas therefore careful to study, and every country which I have surveyed has contributed something... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sivua
...inexhaustible variety: for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 sivua
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...poetical powers." " In so wide a survey, said the prince, you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 sivua
...inexhaustible variety ; for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will have most power...nature I was therefore careful to study, and every coun. try which I have surveyed lias contributed something to my poetical powers." " In so wide a survey,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 sivua
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. 1 have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 sivua
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...powers." • " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 sivua
...useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will hare most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratifying...powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, "you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived, till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 sivua
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth : and he who knows most will have most power...to study, and every country which I have surveyed bas contributed something to my poetical powers.' ' In so wide a survey,' said the prince, ' you must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 sivua
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcemeut or decoration of moral or religious truth; and he, who knows most, will have most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratify inghis reader with remote allusion* and unexpected instruction. " All ihe appearances of nature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 sivua
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...poetical powers." " In so wide a survey, said the prince, you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
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