 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to he useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong : the next is an acquaintance •with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to emhody truth and prove hy events the... | |
 | william blackwood - 1871 - 810 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and •with those examples which may be said to embody 4ruth, and prove by events... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with these examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1880 - 410 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the... | |
 | 1888 - 634 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Edward Parmelee Morris - 1886 - 212 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1887 - 284 Seiten
...provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - 1887 - 134 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be u-eful or I'kwing ; the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong. The next is an acquaintance. with the history of mankind, and with those examples whi<h may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1907 - 436 Seiten
...we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events... | |
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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... 
