 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...  Works - Strona 25autor: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1838Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1843 - Liczba stron: 948
...of knowing what was wanting to the embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in bis imaginary college. " But the truth is, that the knowledge...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1844 - Liczba stron: 590
...indolent have perhaps everywhere the support of a great majority. Johnson has, however, observed — " But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with... | |
 | 1845 - Liczba stron: 880
...common literature of schools, by reading those authors that treat of physical subjects. • • • But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...great or the frequent business of the human mind. • * * We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.' I fear Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1845 - Liczba stron: 878
...the common literature of schools, by reading those authors that treat of physical subjects. • • * But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...great or the frequent business of the human mind. • • • We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.' I fear Dr. Johnson... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - Liczba stron: 588
...the knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, is not the great or the frequent business of the human...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong : the next is au acquaintance with... | |
 | William Ware - 1850 - Liczba stron: 424
...morals. He was emphatically a moralist in the widest sense of that term. He thought with Dr. Johnson, that " the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - Liczba stron: 360
...The knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, is not the great, or the frequent business of the human...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge o( right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - Liczba stron: 336
...The knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, is not the great, or the frequent business of the human...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Liczba stron: 346
...of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age. Cowley, who had more means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Liczba stron: 468
...of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age. Cowley, who had more means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the...whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with... | |
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