 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pagina’s
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...conversation ; and these purposes are best served wby poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantick or paradoxical... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pagina’s
...disciples as teachers of science. He did not read with them those authors, which, in Johnson's words, supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation, such as poets, orators, moral philosophers, and historians, but such as convey information on hypothetical... | |
 | Giovanni Pierio Valeriano - 1821 - 160 pagina’s
...matter are voluntary and at leisure. » — « Poets , orators, and historians are the authors , who supply most axioms of prudence , most principles of moral truth , and most materials of conversation (2). » : In the abundant and full - stored pages of (1) I speak, from a personal knowlege,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pagina’s
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axidms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 pagina’s
...half so tempting or so fair, 11 As Man to Man." Jike.wide. " Those Authors are to be read at School, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles...moral truth, and most materials for conversation." Johnson. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of th« United States, entitled " An Act for the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pagina’s
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character...principles of moral truth, and most materials for con-, versation ; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pagina’s
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character...schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most i* Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantick or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pagina’s
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantick or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pagina’s
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantick or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
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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... 
