 Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which...  The lives of the English poets - Page 85by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablcnefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places; we are perpetually moralifts, but \ve are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is necefiary;... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is necefiary... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places; we are perpetually moraliils, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our incercourfe with intellectual nature is ncceffary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions*. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neeeflary... | |
 | 1789 - 640 pages
...and includes, is not the great or the frequent bulinels of the human mind. P.udence and Julliccare virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually momliffs, but we are geomeir cians only by chance. Our imerrourli T\;ih intellectual nature is neceffa... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neceflary... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...embody " truth, " truth, and prove by events the reaibtt" ablenefe of opinions. Prudence and " juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of " all times, and of all places : we are " perpetually moralifts, but we are geo«* metricians only by chance. Our inter" courfe with intellectual nature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...be faid to em-> body truth, and prove by events the reafonablencfs Of opinions* Prudence and Juftice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neceflkry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be 'said to 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
...wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which maybe said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prejudice and Justice arc virtues ajid excellences of all times and of all places; we are perpetually... | |
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