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... The Lives of the English Poets - Страница 67по Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 страници
...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...next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, VOL. IX. H and with those examples which may be said to em? body truth, and prove by events the reasonableness... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 страници
...the sciences which that knowledge requires " or includes, is not the great or the frequent busi" ness of the human mind. Whether we provide " for action...or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious K and moral knowledge of right and wrong : the next "is an acquaintance with the history of mankind,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 страници
...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...wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is I the religious and moral knowledge of right and vr I wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the... | |
| Giovanni Pierio Valeriano - 1821 - 160 страници
...or what are so denominated , are the rage of the day. But I have Johnson's authority , that « these are not the great , or the frequent business of the human mind. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 страници
...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...next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, VOL. VL H and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness... | |
| 1825 - 574 страници
...which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the buman mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation,...acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with lllose examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 страници
...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 conversai tion, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 страници
...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 con-~r versation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the • first requisite is(ihe religious... | |
| 1825 - 492 страници
...the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent husiness of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to he useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong... | |
| Precept - 1825 - 302 страници
...that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires and includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind ;" that the " first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong, the next an... | |
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