 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 страници
...that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that) N supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moralj Y truth, and most materials for conversation... | |
 | Clemens Klöpper - 1881 - 508 страници
...which, under the name of maxims and axioms, have passed for principles of science (Locke). Those authors are . to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth (Johnson). My father's maxim always was "Be master of thy anger". It is a maxim of state, that countries... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1884 - 434 страници
...of such rare emergence that a man may know another half his life without belng able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy : but his moral...appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schoois that supply most maxims of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materiais for... | |
 | Edward Parmelee Morris - 1886 - 212 страници
...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." The things that are of supreme interest and importance to the average man, and even to the technical... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1887 - 284 страници
...learning is of such 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON. WORSHIPPING SELF-MADE MEN. THE too prevalent worship of the self-made man,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 страници
...in the Bodleian. ' Johnson ( Works, vii. 76), criticising Milton's scheme of education, says : — ' Those authors therefore are to be read at schools...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 Milton... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 страници
...in the Bodleian. ' Johnson (Works, vii. 76), criticising Milton's scheme of education, says : — ' Those authors therefore are to be read at schools...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 Milton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 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. 88 Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1888 - 252 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1888 - 538 страници
...science of ethics, and gives, as every wise man must, the preference to the latter. He then proceeds : " Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools...materials for conversation ; and these purposes are hest served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic... | |
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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... 
