 But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 851780Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pages
...provide for action, or converfation ; whether we wifh to be ufeful, or pleafing; the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples, which may beftud to embody truth, and prove by events the the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pages
...pleafing, the firft requifite is the religiQU& and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is art acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with...of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifls, but we are geometricians... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 pages
...well fitted to accomplifh the ingenious pupil in thefe delightful to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifue is the religious and moral knowledge of right...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events thereafonablenefs of opinions .... We are perpetually MORALISTS, but we are GEOMETRICIANS only by chance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events tht reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and... | |
 | 1786 - 460 pages
...pleafing, the firft acquifition we fliould drive to attain is a knowledge of right and wrong i the next, an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with...reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues of all times, and of every every place. " The mind, by early la" hour, becomes accuftomed to fatigue... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pages
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiflory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...is an acquaintance with the hiftory. of mankind,. <. VoL. IX. H and and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...religious and " moral knowledge of right and wrong j • *' the next is an acquaintance with th« " hiftory of mankind, and with thofe *' examples which may be faid to embody " truth, " truth, and prove by events the reaibtt" ablenefe of opinions. Prudence and " juftice are virtues,... | |
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