 But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful...  The Lives of the English Poets - Pàgina 67per Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pàgines
...that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the...provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to he useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the relisions and moral knowledge of riffht and wrong;... | |
 | 1843 - 454 pàgines
...that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the...acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with these examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove, by events, the reasonableness of opinion.... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1844 - 566 pàgines
...that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences, which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the...acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those example* which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1845 - 878 pàgines
...that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. • • • We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.' I fear Dr. Johnson... | |
 | 1845 - 880 pàgines
...that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. • * * We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.' I fear Dr. Johnson... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 588 pàgines
...the knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, is not the great or the frequent business of the human...and moral knowledge of right and wrong : the next is au acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1849 - 394 pàgines
...imaginary college; but the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind: and we ought not," he adds, " to turn off attention from life to nature, as if we were placed here... | |
 | William Ware - 1850 - 410 pàgines
...that " the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the...moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquainlance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth,... | |
 | William Ware - 1851 - 470 pàgines
...Milton : " The knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the...pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and mpraj knowledge of right and wrong ; . the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pàgines
...The knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, is not the great, or the frequent business of the human...first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge o( right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples,... | |
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