 Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which...  Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden - Page 100by Samuel Johnson - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifls, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intelle&ual nature is neceflary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events tht reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neceflary;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellecr.ua! nature is neceffary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we ate perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chanc*. Our intercourfe with intellectual... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neceflary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...said to embody truth, aprove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prejudice and Justice are virM and excellences of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, b we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual natu is rfccessanr ; our speculations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which...embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opini6ns. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and all places. We are perpetually... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which maybe said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prejudice and Justice arc virtues ajid excellences of all times and of all places; we are perpetually... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquamtance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which...may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonablness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which...of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians... | |
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