 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 Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Pagina 851780Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pagina’s
...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 wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 780 pagina’s
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be uaeful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the... | |
 | Charles Collier - 1856 - 156 pagina’s
...that whether we provide for action or conversation, wish to be pleasing or useful, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1862 - 638 pagina’s
...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 wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with these examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | 1867 - 556 pagina’s
...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 wrong; the next is an acquaintance ' with the history of mankind, and with those examples which ' may be said to embody truth and prove by events... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 pagina’s
...provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to he useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong : the next is an acquaintance •with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to emhody truth and prove hy events the... | |
 | william blackwood - 1871 - 810 pagina’s
...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 wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pagina’s
...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 wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and •with those examples which may be said to embody 4ruth, and prove by events... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 pagina’s
...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 wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with these examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1880 - 410 pagina’s
...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 wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the... | |
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