 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 624 pages
...weakly credulous, nor wantonly fceptical ; his morality is neither dangeroufly lax, nor imprafticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency...care of pleafing the Author of his being. " Truth is fhown fometimes as the phantom of a vifion, fometimes appears half veiled in an allegory ; fometimes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 258 pages
...exhibitions have an air fo much original, that it is difficult to fuppofe them not merely the produdt of imagination. As As a teacher of wifdom he may be...care of pleafing the Author of his being. Truth is fhewn fometimes as the phantom of a vifion, fometimes appears half-veiled in an allegory; fometimes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 484 pages
...an air fo much original, that it is difficult to fuppofe them not merely the product of imagination. As a teacher of wifdom, he may be confidently followed....care of pleafing the Author of his being. Truth is fhewn fbmetimes as the phantom of a vifion, fometimes appears half-veiled in an allegory; fometimes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pages
...much original, that it is difficult to fuppofe them not merely the product of imagination. .-, . •; As a teacher of wifdom, he may be confidently followed....recommend to the reader his real intereft, the care of plcafing the Author of his being. Truth is ihewn fometimes as the phantom of a vifion, fometimes appears... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 254 pages
...exhibitions have an air fo much original, that it is difficult to fuppofe them not merely the produd: of imagination. As As a teacher of wifdom he may be...enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument arc employed to recommend to the reader his real intereft, the care of pleating the Author of his being.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 254 pages
...nothing in it enthufiaftick or fuperftitious: he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly fccptical; his morality is neither dangeroufly lax, nor impracticably...recommend to the reader his real intereft, the care of pleafingthe Author of his being. Truth is fhewn fometimes as the phantom of a vifion, fometimes appears... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...in it enthufiaftick or fuperftitious : he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly tceptical ; his morality is neither dangeroufly lax, nor impracticably...argument are employed to recommend to the reader his i-cal intereft, the care of pleafing the author of his being. Truth is (hewn fometimes as the phantom... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pages
...fuppofe them not merely the product of imagination* . .••••.[•. :• . As a teacher of wifdoni, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing...care of pleafing the Author of his being. Truth is fhewn fometimes as the phantom of a vifion, fometimes appears half- veiled in an allegory ; fometimes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 484 pages
...fceptical; his morality is neither dangeroufly lax, nor impracticably rigid; All the en^ chantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed...care of pleafing the Author of his being*, Truth is fhewn fometimes as the phantom of a vifion, fometimes appears half-veiled in an allegory ; fometimes... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...wantonly fceptical ; his. morality is neither dungeroufly lax, nor implacably rigid; All the enchantments of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed...recommend to the reader his real intereft, the care of pleating the Author of his being. Truth is fhown fometimes as the phantom of a viiion, fometimes appears... | |
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All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. 
