 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 páginas
...that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.23 Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 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...'•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 labour... | |
 | George Lunt - 1855 - 342 páginas
...BALLAD. " Those authors, therefore, are to be read, that supply most axioms of prudenee, most prineiples of moral truth, and most materials for conversation...these purposes are best served by poets, orators and historiaus." JOUNSON. " Life of Milton." So passed the time away, at dear old Eastford. It was not... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 páginas
...emergency that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill iu 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 - 1858 - 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...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 páginas
...half hi» life without being able to " estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy : but hi* " moral and prudential character immediately appears....are best served by poets, orators, and historians." x \N hat an egregious misrepresentation this is of Milton's project the reader, who already knows tlie... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1862 - 638 páginas
...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...are best served by poets, orators, and historians. DR. JOHNSON. Life of Milton. Education in the most extensive sense of the word, may comprehend every... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 906 páginas
...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 páginas
...that one may know another halt' 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 to bo read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials... | |
 | 1867 - 556 páginas
...one man 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 i me, I have Socrates ' on my side. It was... | |
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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. 
