 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 σελίδες
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablcnefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and... | |
 | 1780 - 596 σελίδες
...Whether we 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...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 σελίδες
...we provide for aclion or converfation, whether we wim to be afeful or pleating, the full requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 σελίδες
...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 - 1781 - 498 σελίδες
...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,...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 σελίδες
...provide for action, or converfation ; whether we wifh to be ufeful, or pleafing; the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 σελίδες
...pleafing, the firft requifite is the religiQU& and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is art acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 σελίδες
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 σελίδες
...we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and...which may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and... | |
 | 1786 - 460 σελίδες
...pleafing, the firft acquifition we fliould drive to attain is a knowledge of right and wrong i the next, an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with...be faid to "embody " truth," and prove, by events, the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues of all times, and of every every place.... | |
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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... 
