 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3001856Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and 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 - 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled 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 pofleffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 pages
...reafon thofe familiar hiftorics may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and 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 - 638 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled 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 poffeffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...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
...portrait " of living manners, may perhaps be made of greater ufe " than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey " the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than " axioms and definitions *. Banff has been for feveral years the general refidence and occafional refort of many genteel, opulent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled 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 poffeffion of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
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