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 - 1825 - 526 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 - 1834 - 630 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use arts h But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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...knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than f axioms and definitions. But if the power of exf ample is so great, as to take possession of the \... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use l spirits droop. My hopea all H-it; nature within...of hereof; Ny race of glory run, and race of sham 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 - 1842 - 620 pages
...For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities oi professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more eliieacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 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 - 1851 - 360 pages
...familiar histories, which draw the portraits of living manners, 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 - 1853 - 336 pages
...familiar histories, which draw the portraits of living manners, 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 Warren - 1854 - 526 pages
...been present to the writer's mind : " These fj<Tni1ia.r histories may perhaps be made of greater use, than the solemnities of professed Morality ; and convey...with more efficacy, than axioms and definitions." Possibly few of his readers have had ampler opportunities than the author of this work, of watching... | |
| 1854 - 532 pages
...mind the words of Dr. Johnson, who says, "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." Mr. Warren also bears testimony, as the result of the ample opportunities he has had of gravely and... | |
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