 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
 | 1888
...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... | |
 | Edward Parmelee Morris - 1886 - 27 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1887 - 274 pagina’s
...provide for action or for 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... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - 1887 - 117 pagina’s
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be u-eful or I'kwing ; 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 whi<h may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1907
...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... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1888 - 215 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... | |
 | William Gardner Hale - 1888 - 47 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, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 323 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... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892
...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 - 1892 - 139 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... | |
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