| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 sivua
...we provide for anión or converfation, whether we wiih to be nfeful or pleafing, the firit requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with ihofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 sivua
...bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to beufa* ful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong 5 the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 sivua
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whe- . ther we provide for action, or converfation ; whether we wifh to be ufeful, or pleafing; the firft requifite is...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples, which may beftud to embody truth, and prove by events the the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 sivua
...to accomplifh the ingenious pupil in thefe delightful to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifue is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events thereafonablenefs of opinions .... We are perpetually MORALISTS, but we are GEOMETRICIANS only by chance... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 sivua
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events tht reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 sivua
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the...right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiflory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 sivua
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the...is an acquaintance with the hiftory. of mankind,. <. VoL. IX. H and and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 sivua
...mind. Whether " we provide for aftion or converfation, " whether we wifli to be ufeful or pleating, ** the firft requifite is the religious and " moral knowledge of right and wrong j • *' the next is an acquaintance with th« " hiftory of mankind, and with thofe *' examples which... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 sivua
...conversation, wheili we wish to he \isetul or pleasing, the first requisite is the re'igious arid 11101 knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hist-1 of mankind, and with those examples which maybe said to embody truth, aprove by events the reasonableness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 sivua
...human mind. Whether we provide for aftion or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or plealing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge...next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, Vot. IX. H " and and with thofe examples which may be faid to em-> body truth, and prove by events... | |
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