 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...injstead of helping to settle their boundaries, mix them with so much art, that no common mind is able to disunite them. In narratives where historical veracity...what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...that no common mind is able to dis•unite them. In narratives where historical veracity has no placef I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited...what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humani. ty can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...instead of helping to settle their boundaries, mix them with so much art, that no common mind is able to disunite them. In narratives where historical veracity...what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...instead of helping to settle their boundaries, mix them with so much art, that no common mind is able to disunite them. In narratives where historical veracity...what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions... | |
 | 1816 - 778 pages
...without pain. In narratives where hiftorical veracity has no place, there fhould be exhibited the moft perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical,...nor above probability (for what we cannot credit we {hall never imitate), but the higheft and pureft that humanity of mankind thofe individuals upon which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...instead of helping to settle their boundaries, mix them with so much art, that no common mind is able to disunite them. In narratives, where historical...what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...instead of helping to settle their boundaries, mix them with so much art, that no common mind is able to disunite them. In narratives where historical veracity...what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...settle their boundaries, mix them with so much art, that no common mind is able to disunite them. Cln narratives where historical veracity has no place,...what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...instead of helpin^to^settle^their ; boundaries, mix them with so much art, that no common mind is able to disunite them. In narratives where historical veracity...perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, ,nor - -above_pxQbability, (for what we cannot credit, we shall ; nevej^iinjlate,) but the highest and purest... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1820 - 84 pages
...practice. " In narratives where historical veracity has no place," our great English moralist observes, " I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited...angelical nor above probability, for what we cannot feel we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which exercised in... | |
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In narratives, where historical veracity has no place* I cannot discover, why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate ; but the highest... 
