 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 páginas
...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...best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 páginas
...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...are best served by poets, orators, and historians. 88 Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against... | |
 | William Gardner Hale - 1888 - 56 páginas
...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...moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and those purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. Let ine not be censured for this... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1888 - 572 páginas
...science of ethics, and gives, as every wise man must, the preference to the latter. He then proceeds : " Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and hislorians. ! ,i't me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
 | John Milton - 1888 - 538 páginas
...science of ethics, and gives, as every wise man must, the preference to the latter. He then proceeds : " Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools...materials for conversation ; and these purposes are hest served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic... | |
 | William Gardner Hale - 1888 - 56 páginas
...axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and those 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 Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 362 páginas
...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...materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best servedTby poets, orators, and historians."* In more recent times the increasing importance of natural... | |
 | Calvin Milton Woodward - 1890 - 336 páginas
...Johnson thought that "education was needful to the embellishments of life." Said he, "Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms...moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and those purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians." It is here that our schools have... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 páginas
...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...historians. " Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantic and paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 páginas
...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...historians. " Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantic and paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his... | |
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Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. 
