 For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3001856Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 366 pages
...n'est pas toujours vraisemblable." " These familiar histories may, perhaps, be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions." DR. JOHNSON. ittoii, comcteO. VOLUME II. PBINTEB FOB FRANCIS WESTLET, 10, STATIONER'S CODRT, AND AVE-MARIA... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 352 pages
...n'est pas toujoars vraisemblable." " These familiar histories may, perhaps, be made of greater use (ban the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions." DR. JOHNSON. JiUihon, roi vcrtrO. VOLUME I. Hontton : PRIVTF.D FOR FRANCIS WESTLEV, 10. STATIONER'S... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 352 pages
...vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemhlable. " These familiar histories may, perhaps, be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axiomi and definitions." DR. JOHNSON. corocteft. VOLUME II. Hontton : PRINTED FOR FRANCIS WESTLEY,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...engaged in the like part. For For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with nwejejffica.cy_than_ axiomg. .ajo 4 jj<$jni£ip n s... l^ut if thepower of example is so great as to... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...be engaged in the like part. " For this reason, these familiar histories may be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pages
...himself on the subject of novel-writing:-^ " These familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater u*e than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
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