 | 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...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...axioms and definitions. 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... | |
 | 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...axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almoft... | |
 | 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...axioms and definitions. 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... | |
 | 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...axioms and definitions. 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effefls almoft without... | |
 | 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...axioms and definitions. 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... | |
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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. 
