 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 страници
...another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but hjs moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at school, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles i of moral truth, and most materials for... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 страници
...works, Johnson here attempts to obtain the credit of being a practical man. " Those authors," he says, " therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 страници
...such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral...appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at school, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 страници
...another half his'l,fe, without heing ahle to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; hut his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to he read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 страници
...of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. ical ; for if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his labour to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 страници
...such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.23 Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 страници
...of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. '•Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical; for, if I have... | |
 | George Lunt - 1855 - 342 страници
...BALLAD. " Those authors, therefore, are to be read, that supply most axioms of prudenee, most prineiples of moral truth, and most materials for conversation...these purposes are best served by poets, orators and historiaus." JOUNSON. " Life of Milton." So passed the time away, at dear old Eastford. It was not... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 страници
...rare emergency that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill iu hydrostatics or astronomy ; but, his moral and prudential...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 страници
...of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral...moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and those purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression... | |
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Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are... 
