| Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the powar of example is fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory... | |
| 1785 - 596 pages
...familiar hiftorie» may perhaps be made of ^renter ufe than the folcmnities of profeiled n-J5rality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy' than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take poflèfRon of the memory... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profeffed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than" axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleflion of the memory... | |
| Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 pages
...reafon thofe familiar hiftorics may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of " example" be'fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of the memory... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - 1798 - 758 pages
...portrait " of living manners, may perhaps be made of greater ufe " than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey " the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than " axioms and definitions *. Banff has been for feveral years the general refidence and occafional refort... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take poffeffion of the memory... | |
| 1801 - 342 pages
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefled morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great as to take pofleffion of the memory... | |
| 1803 - 322 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices when they shall be engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and yirtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to... | |
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