 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...knowledge requires or includes, is not the great or the frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablcnefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether \ve provide for action or converfation, whether we \vHh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...mind. Whether we provide for aclion or converfation, whether we wim to be afeful or pleating, the full requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...provide for aflion or converfation, whether we wifli to be ufeful or pleating, the fir it requifue is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...fcfeful or pleafing, the firfr, requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrongs the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Education - 1785 - 360 pages
...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...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events thereafonablenefs of opinions .... We are perpetually... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...requires or includes, includes, are not the great or the frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events tht reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent bufmefs of the human mmd. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we...hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are... | |
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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... 
