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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... "
The Lives of the English Poets - Page 67
by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pages
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Writers and Readers

George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 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...we provide for action or conversation, whether we V.— MILTON AGAINST SOCRATES. 145 wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious...
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 pages
...that knowledge requires or includes, are not JJie great or the_£reiiuentjbusineaa-joi.the tmman mini! Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the firstj'equisite is the religious ancTworal knowledjge of right ami wrong ; the next is an acquaintance...
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The Life of John Milton: 1643-1649

David Masson - 1859 - 758 pages
...which that " knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the " frequent business of the Imman mind. Whether we provide " for action or conversation,...whether we wish to be useful or " pleasing, the first object is the religious and moral know" ledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college. But the truth is, that the we provide for action or conversation, whether we...mankind, and with those examples which may be said to 5 embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues...
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Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 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...we provide for action or conversation, whether we 5 wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the J religious and moral knowledge of right...
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Methods in Education

Thomas Jefferson McEvoy - Education - 1908 - 472 pages
...are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind^-Whether we provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing,...; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind."—Dr. Johnson. (a) It is the appeal for real knowledge which is to be gained through the...
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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

Sir William Henry Sleeman - India - 1915 - 722 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 opinions.2 Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times, and of all places — we...
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... The Spirit of the Chinese People: With an Essay on "The War and the Way ...

Hongming Gu - China - 1915 - 218 pages
...fact, to teach men to be good. "Whether we provide for action or conversation, " says Dr. Johnson, " whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first...and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next, an acquaintance with the history of mankind and with those examples which may be said to embody truth...
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... The Spirit of the Chinese People: With an Essay on "The War and the Way ...

Hongming Gu - China - 1915 - 218 pages
...fact, to teach men to be good. "Whether we provide for action or conversation, " gays Dr. Johnson, " whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious nnd moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next, an acquaintance with the history of mnnkind and with...
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The Idolatry of Science

Stephen Coleridge - Materialism - 1920 - 120 pages
...sciences which that knowledge requires or includes is not the great or the frequent business of the mind. " Whether we provide for action or conversation,...requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right or wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with these examples which may...
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