 | Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pages
...clofer attention, and hope by oblerving his behaviour and fuccefs to regulate their own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this...pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almoft without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken that, when the choice is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...cloler attention, and hope by obobferving his behaviour and fuccefs to regulate their own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. FOR this...more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the powar of example is fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 340 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefied morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axicJms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...familiar hiftorie» may perhaps be made of ^renter ufe than the folcmnities of profeiled n-J5rality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more...But if the power of example is fo great as to take poflèfRon of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effccb almoil without the intervention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...cloftr attention, and hope, by obferving his behaviour and fuccefs, to regulate their own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this...pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almoft without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profeffed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue...But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleflion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almoft without the intervention... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 pages
...own practices, when they fhall be engaged in a like part. For this reafon thofe familiar hiftorics may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities...axioms and definitions. But if the power of " example" be'fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almoft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...clofer attention, and hope, by obfervjng his bc^ haviour and fuccefs, to regulate their own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this...But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almoft without the intervention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...For this reafon, thd'<- familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the fclemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of...vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and d finkions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take poflciTion of the memory by a kind of... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1798 - 758 pages
...the fentiments of a great moralift, that the " hiftory which draws a portrait " of living manners, may perhaps be made of greater ufe " than the folemnities...virtue with more efficacy than " axioms and definitions *. Banff has been for feveral years the general refidence and occafional refort of many genteel, opulent,... | |
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For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. 
