 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pagina’s
...half hi» life without being able to " estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy : but hi* " moral and prudential character immediately appears....purposes " are best served by poets, orators, and historians." x \N hat an egregious misrepresentation this is of Milton's project the reader, who already... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1862 - 638 pagina’s
...reasonableness of opinions. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at school, that supply most axioms or prudence, most principles of moral truth and most...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. DR. JOHNSON. Life of Milton. Education in the most extensive sense of the word, may comprehend... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 906 pagina’s
...skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but, his moral and prudential character immediately appeal's. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools...conversation ; and, these purposes are best served by poeta, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantic or paradoxical... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 874 pagina’s
...of such rave emergency that one may know another halt' his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but, his moral...immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to bo read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials... | |
 | 1867 - 556 pagina’s
...such rare emergence, that one man may know ' another half his life without being able to estimate his skill ' in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral...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... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 pagina’s
...know another half his life without heing ahle to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; hut his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors therefore are to he read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pagina’s
...is of such rare emergency 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," itc. In Johnson's time, also, utilitarianism had its votaries ; accordingly he excuses himself as follows... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 406 pagina’s
...Cowley's scheme for reading natural history in schools and colleges, he combated the opinion, and said: 'Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools,...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.' " A physician of the last generation, maintained that with regard to men generally things... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 356 pagina’s
...Cowley's scheme for reading natural history in schools and colleges, he combated the opinion, and said: 'Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools,...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.'" A physician of the last generation, maintained that with regard to men generally things... | |
 | william blackwood - 1871 - 810 pagina’s
...of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his " tQ R h historians."* This judgment leans, perhaps, too much to the other side of the question, as Socrates... | |
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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... 
