 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 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... | |
 | William Gardner Hale - 1888 - 56 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... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1888 - 240 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 Seiten
...conversation, whether we V.— MILTON AGAINST SOCRATES. 145 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... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 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 - 1894 - 196 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, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 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 5 embody truth, and prove by events... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1901 - 428 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... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1901 - 426 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... 
