 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears, r Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools • /that supply most axioms of prudence, most princiI ples of moral truth, and most materials for conver/ sation ; and these purposes are best served... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 páginas
...that one man may know another hall 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 tlitsti purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. (Warton, 117.) — Milton afterwards... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 566 páginas
...skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his "moral and prudential character immediately ap" pears. Those authors therefore are to be read at " schools,...materials " for conversation : and these purposes are best an" swered by poets, orators, and historians'." Some have thought that, as we are now furnished with... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 páginas
...skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his " moral and prudential character immediately ap" pears. Those authors therefore are to be read at " schools,...materials " for conversation : and these purposes are best an" swered by poets, orators, and historians'." Some have thought that, as we are now furnished with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...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...that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles pf moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served by poets,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...emergence, thai 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, sire to be read at schools, that supply most axioms, most principles of moral truth, and most materials... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 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 or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 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 or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his... | |
 | Boston Latin School (Mass.) - 1820 - 378 páginas
...that one may know another half his life, with-out being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...are best served by poets, orators, and historians."* It is for the solid reasons, which are here so closely condensed by this great man — it is for the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
