 | Markman Ellis - 2004 - 284 pages
...means that 'these familiar histories may perhaps be made greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue...with more efficacy than axioms and definitions'." Novels may (indeed, Johnson argues, should) exhibit only the 'best examples', and in this way, teach... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...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...axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of 50 violence, and produce effects almost... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1798 - 448 pages
...1750: "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. [C]are ought to be taken that . . . the best examples only should be exhibited." 6. Magicians, sorcerers.... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 pages
...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...axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2000 - 972 pages
...danger: [T]hese familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue...efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power ot example is so great, as to take possession of the memor)' by a kind ot violence, and produce effects... | |
 | Eve Tavor Bannet - 2000 - 324 pages
...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." Sarah Fielding does not speak of individual adventurers journeying through the universal drama of the... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
..."familiar histories," to be "of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and [to be able to] convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions" (my emphasis Rambler, 1n, 21-22). But this ideological power makes novels dangerous. Here Johnson considers... | |
 | Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort - 2003 - 872 pages
...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. Quite parallel with this extension of the book page into the form of a talking picture of ordinary... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 pages
..."familiar histories" of today "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." Not that Johnson lacks respect for the solemnities either of morality or of public life; rather, he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if thepower of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce... | |
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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. 
