 As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the...  The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 156by Samuel Johnson - 1781Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 512 pages
...; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...; he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical j his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being." Of his integrity in discharging the duties... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pages
...: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...fociety. In fome of them Addifon takes the higher tone of a religious monitor. All the enchantments of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed...recommend to the reader his real intereft, the care of pleafmg the Author of his being. His papers in " The Spectator" are marked by fome one of the letters... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 516 pages
...; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 pages
...: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the crgency of arguirieut, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pages
...: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment...argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
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