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" But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful... "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Página 29
por Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volumen61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 páginas
...we provide for anión or converfation, whether we wiih to be nfeful or pleafing, the firit requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with ihofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 páginas
...bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to beufa* ful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong 5 the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volumen1

Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 páginas
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whe- . ther we provide for action, or converfation ; whether we wifh to be ufeful, or pleafing; the firft requifite is...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples, which may beftud to embody truth, and prove by events the the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice...
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Liberal Education, Or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of ..., Volumen1

Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 360 páginas
...to accomplifh the ingenious pupil in thefe delightful to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifue is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events thereafonablenefs of opinions .... We are perpetually MORALISTS, but we are GEOMETRICIANS only by chance...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 páginas
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events tht reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical ..., Volumen1

Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 páginas
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the...right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiflory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 páginas
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the...is an acquaintance with the hiftory. of mankind,. <. VoL. IX. H and and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the...
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Tracts on Political and Other Subjects, Volumen3

Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 páginas
...mind. Whether " we provide for aftion or converfation, " whether we wifli to be ufeful or pleating, ** the firft requifite is the religious and " moral knowledge of right and wrong j • *' the next is an acquaintance with th« " hiftory of mankind, and with thofe *' examples which...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...conversation, wheili we wish to he \isetul or pleasing, the first requisite is the re'igious arid 11101 knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hist-1 of mankind, and with those examples which maybe said to embody truth, aprove by events the reasonableness...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 páginas
...human mind. Whether we provide for aftion or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or plealing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge...next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, Vot. IX. H " and and with thofe examples which may be faid to em-> body truth, and prove by events...
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