 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
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 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... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 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...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 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... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pages
...If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot perceive (says the great critic al ready quoted) of what use it can be to read the account ; or why...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... | |
 | 1823 - 880 pages
...and success, to regulate their own practices. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot we 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 with, out discrimination. It is not a sufficient vindication... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 pages
...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. โ...therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, 1 1 ml, is, is drawn as it appears, fonnany characters ought never to be drawn ; nor of a narrative,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 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 - 1825 - 530 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, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot ััะต of what use it can be to read the account : or why it may not be aa safe to turn mankind aa upon a that presents itself withthe eye immediately mirror which shows out... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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...safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon I mirror which shows all that presents itself with, out discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
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