 | 1803 - 296 pages
...yet as that choice must be without any cogency of conviction, the hopes or fears which it raises will be faint and languid. Of two heroes acting in confederacy...from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established ; that he may neither violate essential... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...not at some nnlucky time, injure their own characters 'by attempting to -enlarge them. Ibid, f 130. It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer, to...from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which •is right only because it is established; that he ma.-v ^either violate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 420 pages
...time, injure their own characters by attempting .to enlarge .them. ibid. p. 13.0. It ought to lie.the first endeavour -of a writer, to distinguish nature...custom ; or that .which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...as that choice must be without any cogency of conviction, 'the hopes or fears which it raises will be faint and languid. Of two heroes acting in confederacy...from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...destructive of true taste. " It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer (says the excellent RAMBLER-)-) to distinguish nature from custom ; or that which is established, because it is right, from from that which is right, only because it is established ; that he may neither violate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pages
...yet as that choice must be without any cogency of conviction, the hopes or fears which it raises will be faint and languid. Of two heroes acting in confederacy...from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 pages
...yet as that choice must be without any cogency of conviction, the hopes or fears which it raises will be faint and languid. Of two heroes acting in confederacy...from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established ; that he may neither violate essential... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...as that choice must be without any cogency, of conviction, the hopes or fears which it raises will be faint and languid. Of two heroes acting in confederacy...from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established ; that he may neither violate essential... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 pages
...yet as that choice must be without any cogency of conviction, the hopes or fears which it raises will be faint and languid. Of two heroes acting in confederacy...from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established ; that he may neither violate essential... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...yet, as that choice must be without any cogency of conviction, the hopes or fears which it raj^es will be faint and languid. Of two heroes acting in confederacy...It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguishy.nature from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which... | |
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It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire... 
