 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
 | John Hayward - 1845 - 458 pages
...; 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly skeptical j his morality is neither dangerously lax nrr impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy...of argument are employed to recommend to the reader bis real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 pages
...superstitious; 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...wantonly scepti15 cal ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor implacably rigid. 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. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom 20... | |
 | Lady of Rhode Island - 1850 - 158 pages
...sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously base, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantments of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the ease of pleasing the Author of his being."' Of his integrity in discharging the duties... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 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." In the following lines he expresses the... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 592 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." In the following lines he expresses the complacency... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor implacably rigid. 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. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom... | |
 | 1853 - 756 pages
...stand, perhaps the first, of the first •rank, As a Teacher of Wisdom he may be confidently followed ; all the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument are employed (by him) to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his Being.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 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... | |
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