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" ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in... "
PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS. - Page 10
by SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781
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Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...thephilofopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and fyflems of inftruction, adapted to theirwants and capacities, from the dawn of reafon through its...action, will look with veneration on the writer who is is at one time combating Locke* and at another making a catechifm for children in their fourth year....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...fcholarjthephilofopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and fyftems of inn;ru6tion, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn...principles of human action, will look with veneration on tfre writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechifm for children in their...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 pages
...fcholar, the philofopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and fyftems of inftruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn...through its gradations of advance in the morning of lifeEvery man, acquainted with the common principles of humanaction, will look with veneration neration...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

1784 - 778 pages
...fcholar, the philofopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and fyitems of mftruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn...principles of human action, will look with veneration on thc'writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a Catechifm for children in their...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 9

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 pages
...little poems of devotion, and fyftems of inftruction, adapted to the wants and capacities of children, from the dawn of reafon, through its gradations of...man, acquainted with the common principles of human actions, will look with venerating on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 340 pages
...fcholar, the philofopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and fyftems of inftruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn...its gradations of advance in the morning of life. Everjr man acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 4

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 pages
...necessary, we think a reference to Dr. Johnson's eulogy of Dr. Watts will be entirely satisfactory. " Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on thu writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another time making a catechism for children...
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Evangelical Biography: Being a Complete and Fruitful Account of the Lives ...

Erasmus Middleton - 1807 - 662 pages
...devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of...principles of human action, will look with veneration OD the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at an another making a catechisrti for children...
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The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting ..., Volume 1

Walter Wilson - 1808 - 584 pages
...devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of...man, acquainted with the common principles of human nature, will look with veneration on the writer who is at one time -combating Locke, and at another,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of...with veneration on the writer, who is at one time comhat. -ing Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary...
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