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" If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. "
The Monthly Magazine - Page 180
1798
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 16

1816 - 778 pages
...deformed by wicltednefs. " If the world be promifcuoufly dtfcribed (fays Johufon), I cannot perceive of what ufe it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as fafe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror, which (hows all that prcfents itlelf...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account : or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shews all thai presents itself...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account : 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...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 16

1818 - 904 pages
...their own practices. If the world b« (by novelists) promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account: or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately on mankind as upon a mirror which shews all that presents itself without...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account : or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon 24 THE RAMBLER. No. 4mankind as upon a mirror which shews all...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account : or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shews all that presents itself...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...passion or deformed by wickedness . If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account : or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as ugpn a mirrour which shows all that presents itself...
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 pages
...passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 15

1823 - 886 pages
...world be promiscuously described, I cannot perceive (says the great critic al ready quoted) of what use it can be to read the account ; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1823 - 880 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot we of what use it can be to read the account, or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shews all that presents itself...
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