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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. "
The Rambler. ... - Page 19
by Samuel Johnson - 1750
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...other man; young fpectators fix their eyes upon him with cloler attention, and hope by obobferving his behaviour and fuccefs to regulate their own practices,...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...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

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...
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The Rambler

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...
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A Full Inquiry Into the Subject of Suicide: To which are Added (as Being ...

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...young fpectators fix their eyes upon him with clofer attention, and hope, by obfervjng his bc^ haviour and fuccefs, to regulate their own practices, when...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...
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The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the ..., Volume 20

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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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 1

1801 - 342 pages
...clofer attention, and hope, by obferving his behaviour and fuecefs, to regulate their own practicesr when they fhall be engaged in the like part. For this...pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effefls almoft without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, .when the choice...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...other man ; young fpectatois fix their eyes upon him with clofer attention, and hope, by obferving his behaviour and fuccefs, to regulate their own practices,...But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce eflects almoft without the intervention...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...morality, and convey the knowledge of vice t and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and defi- i nitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take...pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce eflects almoft without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice...
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Select British Classics, Volume 5

1803 - 322 pages
...greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and yirtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without...
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