 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
 | 1970 - 970 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1973 - 492 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1974 - 312 pages
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 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 pages
...to fear, and ignorance what to detest: 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, (in, pp. 21-2) The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that... | |
 | Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - 1976 - 200 pages
...introductions into life'. Shades of Castelvetro and JC Scaliger! 'Such novels,' he continues, ' may convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms or definitions '. Their authors, while imitating nature, must select from nature those individuals... | |
 | John L. Mahoney - 1980 - 792 pages
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 | Walter Pache - 1980 - 292 pages
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