 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 pages
...being able to eftimate his fkill in HYDROSTATICS or ASTRONOMY ; but his moral and prudential charafter immediately appears. " THOSE AUTHORS, THEREFORE, ARE...ARE BEST SERVED BY POETS, ORATORS, AND HISTORIANS." Dr. JOHNSON. * The laws of England muft alfo be comprehended among the academical flu dies. The excellent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...know anotbi half his life without being able to estimate his (kill in hydrostaticks or astroru my; but his moral and prudential character immediately...therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axicwi of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materiafs for conversa tion ; and these... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...one man may know another hall' his life without being able to estimate his fltill in hydrostaticks or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character...this digression as pedantick or paradoxical; for if I ba.\e Milton against me, 1 have Socrates on my side. It was his labour to turn philosophy from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...that one man may know another half his life - without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaties or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...appears; Those authors therefore, are to be read at school, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...skill in hydrostaties or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. 1'hose authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that...principles of moral truth, and most materials for conveisation ; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be... | |
 | George Horne - 1808 - 320 pages
...that one man may know another half his life, without being able to estimate bis skill in hydrostatics or astronomy: but his moral and prudential character...Those authors therefore are to be read at schools, (hat supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydro. statics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...historians. ยง Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudeutiaj character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore,...are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudente, most prineiples of moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these purposes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. s Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools...that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles <ir moral truth,, and most materials , for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 pages
...: physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know ano- ] skill in hydrostatics, or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character...these purposes are best served by Poets, Orators, and Historians."l1 Of the same opinion was the great Lord Bacon, a man whose true and profound genius in... | |
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Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. 
