 | 1846 - 578 pages
...the snares laid by evil for innocence, without producing a wish for that superiority of dissimulation with which the betrayer flatters his vanity; to give the power of counteracting, without the temptation to practise; to initiate youth in the science of a necessary defence, against... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with less haz- 25 ard; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are...without the temptation to practise it; to initiate 30 youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defense, and to increase prudence without impairing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 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 with less haz- 25 ard; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...wickedness." He draws the conclusion that "many characters ought never to be drawn." The purpose of novels is "to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by Treachery for Innocence ... to give the power of counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practice it; to initiate youth... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 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...of counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practice it; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defense, and to increase... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 pages
...than axioms and definitions, (in, pp. 21-2) The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter...of counter-acting fraud, without the temptation to practice it; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase... | |
 | Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer - 2004 - 300 pages
...mimetically but to equip the reader for life within it - their power, in Johnson's words, 'not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with less hazard'.23 The main body of the book pursues this analysis by a close study of Clarissa, In three chapters... | |
 | Lionel Kelly - 1995 - 399 pages
...The purpose of these writings is surely not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may beseen hereafter with less hazard; to teach the means of...vanity; to give the power of counteracting fraud, \vithout the temptation to practise it; to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary... | |
 | G. J. Barker-Benfield - 1992 - 554 pages
...strong doubts about women's capacity for judgment. Novels should be "conduct books," their moral purpose "to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by Treachery for Innocence." Burney, too, in this regard a Mandevillean, saw "experience" as the cure for romance.86 Yet if the... | |
 | Anne Waldron Neumann - 1999 - 196 pages
...artificial experience for youthful readers: The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with less hazard; ... to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without... | |
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... it, to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue. 
