...indolent have perhaps everywhere the support of a great majority. Johnson has, however, observed — " But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...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 common literature of schools, by reading those authors that treat of physical subjects. • • * But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...great or the frequent business of the human mind. • • • We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.' I fear Dr. Johnson...

...common literature of schools, by reading those authors that treat of physical subjects. • • • But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...great or the frequent business of the human mind. • * * We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.' I fear Dr. Johnson...

...morals. He was emphatically a moralist in the widest sense of that term. He thought with Dr. Johnson, that " the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...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...

...treatises of the ancients. This was a scheme of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age. Cowley, who had more means...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...

...treatises of the ancients. This was a scheme of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age. Cowley, who had more means...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;...

...treatises of the ancients. This was a scheme of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age. Cowley, who had more means...provide for action or conversation ; whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right ami wrong...

...treatises of the ancients. This was a scheme of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age. Cowley, who had more means...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 and wrong...

...treatises of the ancients. This was a scheme of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age. Cowley, who had more means...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;...

...that age. Cowley, who had more means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the embellish mentí of life, formed the same plan of education in his...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 and wrong...