If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 23by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
| 1803 - 322 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror, which shews all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1805 - 188 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shews all that pre. tents itself without discrimination. ' It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1805 - 198 pages
...discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot :ee of what use it can be to read the account ; or why...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shews all that presents itself without discrimination. ' It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1805 - 206 pages
...discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously deseribed, I cannot .• cc of what use it can be to read the account ; or why...as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, ai upon a mirror which shews all that presents itself without diserimination. * It is therefore not... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account;...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a ' mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 352 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account:...eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient vindication... | |
| 1809 - 1020 pages
...often discoloured by passion, or " deformed by wickedness. If the " world be promiscuously described, I " cannot see of what use it can be to " read the...account, or why it may " not be as safe to turn the eye imme" dialcly upon mankind, as upon a '* mirror, which shews all that pre" sents itself without discrimination.... | |
| 1810 - 464 pages
...so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account...eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient vindication... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness". If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account:...eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient vindication... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...world be promifcuoufly defcribed, I cannot perceive (fays the great critic already quoted) of what ufe it can be to read the account ; or why it may not be as fafe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which ihows all that prefenis itfelf... | |
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