 An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;' and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs.  Works - Page 167by Samuel Johnson - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Midwife - 1750 - 302 pages
...derivata eludes, In Patriam Populumque jluxit. HoR. TH E Reader is indebted for this Day's Entertainment, to an Author from whom the Age has received greater...enlarged the Knowledge of human Nature, and taught the Paffions to move at the Command of Virtue. r fa the RAMBLE R. XTTHEN the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed... | |
 | 1751 - 224 pages
...derivata eludes, In patriam populumque fuxit. HoR. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paffions to move at (he command of virtue. To the RAMBLER. WHen the SPECTAToR was full publifhcd in... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...HEAD, ROME AKD 0'IR TH> NATION! (TRIAD. FRANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human natu re, and taught the paffions to move at the command of virtue. TO THE RAMBLER. 8IR, the Spectator... | |
 | 1786 - 800 pages
...maintained with feveral ladies of refined that the reader was indebted, for that day'» entertainment, to an author, " from whom the age has received greater favours, who tafte and talents, whofe letters on various has enlarged the knowledge of human na.fubjects, were they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...O'er Rome and o'er the nations fpread. FRANCU. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paflions to move at the command of virtue. t SIR, To the RAMBLER. HEN the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 472 pages
...O'er Rent and o'er the nations fpread. FtAXCi*. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paXTiODS to move at the command of virtue. SIR, To the RAMBLER. the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed In... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1796 - 426 pages
...wa» written by Mr Richardfon, obferves, that the reader was indebted for that day's entertainment to an author, " from whom the age has received greater...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the pafíions to move at the command of virtue ;" and, in his Life of Rowe, he fays, " The character of... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 432 pages
...it is well known, was written by Mr. Richardfon ; in the preamble to which Dr. John ton Itylcs him " an author from whom the age has received greater favours,...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paffions to move at the command of Virtue." In the " Anecdotes of Bovvyer," are collected a confiderable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...Talbot ; No. Q7, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 10O, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1799 - 456 pages
...public approbation. 1 >r. Johnson styles him " an author from whom the age has received great favour«, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the Passions to move at the '.oramand of Virtue." He was born died 1785. RIDLEY (DR. NICHOLAS) Ы shop of London, one of the principal... | |
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