 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 páginas
...action or converfation, whether we \vHh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 páginas
...aclion or converfation, whether we wim to be afeful or pleating, the full requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | 1780 - 596 páginas
...aflion or converfation, whether we wifli to be ufeful or pleating, the fir it requifue is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 páginas
...action, or converfation ; whether we wifh to be ufeful, or pleafing; the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples, which may beftud to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 páginas
...the ingenious pupil in thefe delightful to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifue is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 páginas
...action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 páginas
...action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 páginas
...action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiflory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 páginas
...action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory. of mankind,. <. VoL. IX. H and and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 páginas
...action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
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... The truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful... 
