 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 1801798Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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 t ' which shows all that presents itself without... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world can 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... | |
 | Robert J. Griffin - 1995 - 208 pages
...mirror-like, but is highly selective: "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 nature, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 pages
...for example, Johnson argues that "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... | |
 | Raymond Tallis - 1998 - 236 pages
...Anthology, (London: Picador, 1972). If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use if can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eyes immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...are most proper for imitation. ... 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... | |
 | Richard H. Schmidt - 2002 - 364 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... | |
 | Stephen Halliwell - 2009 - 440 pages
...experience of the world. "If the world be promiscuously described," he writes, "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... | |
 | Martina Mittag - 2002 - 280 pages
...truth. Grabes, The Mutable Glass, 233 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 äs safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, äs upon a mirrour which shews all that presents... | |
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