| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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