 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...train of event» is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is culled knowledge of the world, will be found much more frequently...show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafler with less hazard ; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by Treachery... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...narrative, tliat me train of events is agree» ble to observation and experience ; for that ob scrvation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found...make men cunning than good. The purpose, of -these ч writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...drawn ; no of a narrative, that the train of events is agreea* ble to observation and experience ; for that observation which is called knowledge of...; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by Treachery for Innocence, without infusing any wish for that superiority with which the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...narrative, that the train of events ia agree* ble to observation and experience ; for that ob servalion which is called knowledge of the world, will be found...; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by Treachery for Innocence, without infusing any wish for that superiority with which the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...be drawn: nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of...hazard; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without infusing any wish for that superiority with which the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pages
...be drawn : nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of...much more frequently to make men cunning than good. . . . Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...drawn: nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and 20 experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of...provide that they may be seen hereafter with less haz- 25 ard; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...375. « " On American Civilization," The Times, 12th July 1922. 6 Rambler, No. 4. V MORALISTS 75 ledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good." 1 A note, in the edition which I possess of Johnson's Works, states that " this excellent paper was... | |
 | Victor Francis Calverton - 1926 - 380 pages
...be drawn ; nor of a narrative that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of...much more frequently to make men cunning than good." (Italics mine.) The deficiency of this criticism is not that it advocates selection, which is the basis... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down. Hamlet, II, ii. THAT observation which is called knowledge of the...much more frequently to make men cunning than good. Dr. Johnson, R, No. 4. THE mind of man, when its daily maxims are put before it, revolts from anything... | |
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It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character that it is drawn as it appears; for many characters ought never to be drawn: nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience; for that observation which... 
