 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
 | 1906 - 894 pages
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the... | |
 | 1917 - 734 pages
...provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first- requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | P. B. Medawar - 2008 - 416 pages
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | John Lukacs - 456 pages
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong, the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...external nature . . . [is] not the great or frequent business of the human mind . . . The first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 2000 - 252 pages
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the... | |
 | 1920 - 600 pages
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 pages
...wanting to the embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college. the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
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