 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...in his imaginary College. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the fciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for actiou or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...in his imaginary College. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the fciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent bufmefs of the human mmd. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...in his imaginary College, But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the fciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent bufinefe of the human mind. Whether we provide for aftion or converfation, whether we wifh to be ufeful... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...die truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requi es or. includes, are not the great or the frequent business...for action or conversation, whether we wish to be userul or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge ot right and wrong; the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary Collage. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquamtance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...in his imaginary' College. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the fciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent bufinefs of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or converfation, whether we wiih to be ufeful... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...embellishments of life, formed the same plan of. education in his imaginary college. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowlege of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance iviih the history of mankind, and with those... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college. 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... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...the sciences which that knowledge requires " or includes, is not the great or the frequent busi" ness of the human mind. Whether we provide " for action...or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious K and moral knowledge of right and wrong : the next "is an acquaintance with the history of mankind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is I the religious and moral knowledge of right and vr I wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the... | |
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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... 
