 But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and...  Works - Pàgina 19per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pàgines
...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 by a kind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 340 pàgines
...reafon thefe familiar hiftories may perhaps be made of greater ufe than the folemnities of profefied morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axicJms and definitions. But if the power of example is fo great, as to take pofleffion of the memory... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pàgines
...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 by a kind... | |
 | 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 by a kind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pàgines
...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 by a kind... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 pàgines
...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 by a kind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pàgines
...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 by a kind... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1798 - 758 pàgines
...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 of many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pàgines
...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 by a kind... | |
 | 1801 - 342 pàgines
...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 by a kind... | |
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