 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 páginas
...agreeable to obfervation and experience, for ti>U:gbffrvaticn which is called knowledge of the wci Id, will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. The jp.urpofe of thefe writings is furely not or.ly to fhow mankind, but to provide that they may fye feen... | |
 | 1785 - 596 páginas
...that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience, for that oblervation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunningthangood. The purpofe of thefc writings is furely not only to (hew mankind, but to proride that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 páginas
...that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience, for that obiervation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more...laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without infufing any wi(h for that fuperiority with which the betrayer flatters his vanity ; to give the power of counteracting... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...that t!ie train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience, for thit obfervation wliich is called knowledge of the world will be found much more...frequently to make men cunning than good. The purpofe of thele writings is furely not only to fhow m.mlund, but to provide that they may be fecn here:fi^r with... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 páginas
...events is agreeable to obfervation and experience — " for that obfervation, \vhich is t; called " called knowledge of the world, will be found much...The purpofe of thefe writings is furely, not only to (how mankind, but to provide that they may be feen hereafter with lefs hazard ; to teach the means... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 páginas
...that the train of events is agreeable- to obfervation and experience, for that obfervation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than pood. The purpoleof thefe writings is i'urcly not only to Ihew mankind, but to provide that they may... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 páginas
...narrative, . у ' that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation ; for that obfervation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more...The purpofe of thefe writings is furely not only to (how mankind, but to provide that they may be feen hereafter with lefs hazard ; to teach the means... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 páginas
...that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience ; for that obfervation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much...with lefs hazard ; to teach the means of avoiding the ihares which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without infufing any wifh for that fuperiority with... | |
 | 1801 - 342 páginas
...that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience, for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more...The purpofe of thefe writings is furely not only to fhew mankind, but to provide that they may be feen hereafter with lefs hazard ; to teach the means... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 páginas
...that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience ; for that obfervation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much...The purpofe of thefe writings is furely not only to mow mankind, but to provide that they may be feen hereafter with lei's hazard ; to teach the means... | |
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It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which... 
