| Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. FOR this reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities...virtue with 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,... | |
| 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 efficacy' than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take poflèfRon of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
| 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 with more efficacy than" axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleflion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
| 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...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of " example" be'fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
| 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...own practices, when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
| 1801 - 342 pages
...own practicesr when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
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