Whether 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... The Port Folio - Seite 1981826Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 292 Seiten
...maybe faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of-opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places; we are perpetually moralifls, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neceflary;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 Seiten
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablcnefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places; we are perpetually moralifts, but \ve are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is necefiary;... | |
| 1780 - 596 Seiten
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is necefiary... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 Seiten
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places; we are perpetually moraliils, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our incercourfe with intellectual nature is ncceffary... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 Seiten
...be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions*. Prudence and Juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neeeflary... | |
| 1789 - 640 Seiten
...and includes, is not the great or the frequent bulinels of the human mind. P.udence and Julliccare virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually momliffs, but we are geomeir cians only by chance. Our imerrourli T\;ih intellectual nature is neceffa... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 Seiten
...may be faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prudence and juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of all times, and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neceflary... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 Seiten
...faid to embody " truth, and prove by events the feafon" ablenefs of opinions. Prudence and " juftice are virtues, and excellencies, of " all times, and of all places: we are " perpetually moralifts, but we are geo" metricians only by chance. Our inter" courfe with intellectual nature is... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 472 Seiten
...he faid to cm* body truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs of opinions. Prurience and Juflice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our interconrfe with intellectual nature is neceflary... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 Seiten
...be faid to em-> body truth, and prove by events the reafonablencfs Of opinions* Prudence and Juftice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralifts, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourfe with intellectual nature is neceflkry... | |
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