 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...  The Lives of the English Poets - Page 67by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requisite 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 - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 pages
...we provide for aftion or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or plealing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...The knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, Is not the great or the frequent business .of the human...embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opini6ns. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and all places. We are perpetually... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requi es or. includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the...for action or conversation, whether we wish to be userul or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge ot right and wrong; the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...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...moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquamtance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wiih 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, VOL. IX. H and and with thofe examples which may be faid toern* body truth, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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...next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, VOL. IX. H and ^ and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...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...pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowlege of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance iviih the history of mankind, and with those... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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...embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinionsPrudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually... | |
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