 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
 | 1823 - 876 pages
...; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...superstitious; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of...argument are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being." Many of the subjects discussed in these volumes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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 authour of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of...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 - 1825 - 310 pages
...society. In some of them, Addison takes the higher tone of a religious monitor. All the enchantments 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. His papers in " The Spectator," are marked... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...superstitious; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of...of argument are employed to recommend to the reader hii real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pages
...; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of...argument are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. His prose is the model of the middle style... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly skeptical ; his morality is neither dangerously e a present of twenty guineas. I am very ready to...that the present was larger than my performance dps recommena to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shown... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All tlie 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. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | John Hayward - 1842 - 444 pages
...superstitious; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly skeptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of...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... | |
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