 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation ° and experience, for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found...more frequently to make men cunning than good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may be seen... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pages
...drawn : nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to ohservation ; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found...more 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... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...narrative, that the tram of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation, which is called knowledge of the world, will be found...more frequently to make men cunning than good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may be seen... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning thau good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found...more 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation amuel purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to mako men cunning than good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...train of event» is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is culled knowledge of the world, will be found much more 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...narrative, that the train of events is agreea* ble to observation and experience ; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found...more 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found...much more frequently to make men cunning than good. . . . Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal... | |
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It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which... 
