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... Writers and Readers - Страница 147по George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 211 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Charles Collier - 1856 - 156 страници
...human mind, and that whether we provide for action or conversation, wish to be pleasing or useful, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge...and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions." According to this view of learning, an Education which should give exclusive attention to physical... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 страници
...the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which... | |
| Horace Binney Wallace - 1856 - 478 страници
...which Johnson has closely copied where he says, ' Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places : we are perpetually...moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance ;' and which he may have had in his mind when he elsewhere wrote : ' if, instead of wandering after... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 страници
...the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite...wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history ofmankind, ana with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1862 - 638 страници
...learning you will have learning. GREEK PROVERB. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite...acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with these examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions.... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1864 - 906 страници
...moral knowledge of right and and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of nqankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody...moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Опт intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 страници
...the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite...those examples which may be said to embody truth, and proye by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of... | |
| 1867 - 532 страници
...the frequent business of the human mind. Whether ' we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be ' useful or pleasing, the first requisite...may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reason' ableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues, and ex' cellencies, of all times and... | |
| Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 страници
...business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to he useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious...mankind, and with those examples which may be said to emhody truth and prove hy events the reasonableness d opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 страници
...frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of rviht and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind and with those examples which... | |
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