As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the... The Spectator - Sivu 24muokkaaja - 1810Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 sivua
...prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. ... All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of...interest, the care of pleasing the author of his being. . . . Truth wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing." Works, vii. 451, 472. 5 ' As it has... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 234 sivua
...wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastick or superstitious : he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. . . . " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 sivua
...he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither danger- 25 ously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of a vision, some- 30 times appears half-veiled in an allegory... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 sivua
...wisdom, he may be confidentially followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly...reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the authour of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision; sometimes appears half-... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 sivua
...grown body of childish and idle there has been so much progress, superstitions. . . . Nothing is so appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision ', sometimes appears half-veiled in an allegory... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1907 - 142 sivua
...wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious ; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of a vision ; sometimes appears half-veiled in an allegory... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 sivua
...wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or 30 superstitious : he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly...recommend to the reader his real interest, the care 35 of pleasing the author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of a vision; sometimes... | |
| Charles W - 1910 - 466 sivua
...wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has noth1ng in it enthusiastick or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical;...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision, sometimes appears half-veiled in an allegory;... | |
| Alfred Plummer - 1910 - 268 sivua
...confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic (ie wildly emotional) or superstitious ; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being " (Life of Addison, sub fin.). The last is Johnson's own phrase ; Addison commonly speaks of God as... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 sivua
...nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly skeptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of a vision, sometimes appears half veiled in an allegory,... | |
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