 ... 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 betrayer flatters his vanity ; to give the power of counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise...  Select British Classics - Page 341803Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without infufing any wifh for that fuperiority with jy* .' which the betrayer flatters his vanity ; to give the...of counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practife it ; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of neceflary defence, and to encreafe... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1805 - 198 pages
...writings is, surely, not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with the less hazard ; to teach the means of avoiding the snares...counteracting fraud without the temptation to practise it ; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase f rudence without... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1805 - 206 pages
...writings is, surely, not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with the less hazard; to teach the means of avoiding the snares...that superiority with which the betrayer flatters his vani. ty ! to give fhc power of counteracting fraud without the temptation to practice it ; to initiate... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1805 - 188 pages
...writings is, surely, not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with the less hazard; to teach? the means of avoiding the snares...that superiority with which the betrayer flatters his vani. ry; to give the power of counteracting fraud without the temptation to practise it; to initiate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 pages
...the account : or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shews all that presents itself without discrimination....counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise it ; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, forthat observation which is called knowledge of the world...counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise it ; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 pages
...presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a cha.racier, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters...counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise it; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudenca without... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 372 pages
...good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may b3 seen hereafter with less hazard ; to teach the means...counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise it ; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 352 pages
...or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It...counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise it; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...frequently to make men cunning than good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter...counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise it; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without... | |
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