 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to shew mankind, but to provide that they may be seen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is t freqș purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to mako men cunning than good. The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...train of event» is agreeable to observation and experience ; for that observation which is culled knowledge of the world, will be found much more 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...that the train of events is agreea* ble to observation and experience ; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much more 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. . . . Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...that the train of events is agreeable to observation and 20 experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much more 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... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...375. « " On American Civilization," The Times, 12th July 1922. 6 Rambler, No. 4. V MORALISTS 75 ledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good." 1 A note, in the edition which I possess of Johnson's Works, states that " this excellent paper was... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down. Hamlet, II, ii. THAT observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. Dr. Johnson, R, No. 4. THE mind of man, when its daily maxims are put before it, revolts from anything... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience; for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more 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... | |
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It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which... 
