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" 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 300
1856
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

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,...
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Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of ...

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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

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 \...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 1

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,...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

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,...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

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,...
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Passages from the diary of a late physician

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...
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The Legal Observer, and Solicitors' Journal, Volume 47

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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