 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 234 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. . . . " Whoever wishes to attain an English... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither danger- 25 ously 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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 authour of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1907 - 142 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 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 35 of pleasing the author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1910 - 268 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 " (Life of Addison, sub fin.). The last is Johnson's... | |
 | Charles W - 1910 - 466 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 shewn sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of... | |
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