 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
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pàgines
...provide for aetion or eonversation; whether we wish to he useful or pleasing, the firtt requisite- is tho religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong: the next Is an aequaintanee with the history of mankind, and with those examplea whieh may he said to emhody trnth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 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...mankind, and with those examples, which may be said to imhody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pàgines
...the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great nor the frequent husiness of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to he useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 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...requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right ami wrong : the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 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...is the religious and moral knowledge of right and and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 780 pàgines
...a volume of philosophical abstractions. But, 1 These remarks arc fully confirmed by Dr. Johnson. " Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be uaeful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1862 - 638 pàgines
...knowledge." DR. JOHNSON. BorxeWt Life. If you love learning you will have learning. GREEK PROVERB. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether...acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with these examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 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...those examples which may be said to embody truth, and proye by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of... | |
 | 1867 - 556 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...may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reason' ableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues, and ex' cellencies, of all times and... | |
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