 ... 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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 468 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...parts of nature, which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion, or...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... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn; nor of a narrative, that the tram of events is agreeable to observation and experience,...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...frequently to make men cunning thau 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... | |
 | 1823 - 428 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...wish for that superiority with which the betrayer natters his vanity; to give the power of counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practise it;... | |
 | 1823 - 886 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...; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which «re laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without ensuring any wish for that superiority with which the... | |
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