 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pagine
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pagine
...Whether 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 wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with ihofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pagine
...provide for aflion or converfation, whether we wifli to be ufeful or pleating, the fir it requifue is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pagine
...we provide for aclion or converfation, whether we wim to be afeful or pleating, the full requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pagine
...provide for action, or converfation ; whether we wifh to be ufeful, or pleafing; the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples, which may beftud to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pagine
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifls, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intelle&ual nature is neceflary... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 pagine
...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 wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pagine
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pagine
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pagine
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of 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... | |
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But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful... 
