 | Prosser Hall Frye - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...such was their interest and their theme. And on this point the evidence of Dr. Johnson is conclusive. 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;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson McEvoy - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...ma.it'm, "Things rather than words?" (b) Discuss,as bearing upon this maxim, the following quotation: "The truth is, that the knowledge of external nature...not the great or the frequent business of the human mind^-Whether we provide for action or for conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing,... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...vagrant inattention, to stimulate sluggish indifference, and to rectify absurd misapprehension. ing what was wanting to the embellishments of life, formed...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... | |
 | William Baxter Owen - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...by the testimony of two witnesses whose authority will not be questioned. Dr. Samuel Johnson says: "The truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...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...truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, is not the great or the frequent business... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. # * # The knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...great or the frequent business of the human mind. Some seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the stars.... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...treat of physical subjects, such as theGeorgick, and astronomical treatises of the ancients. . . . 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;... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...treat of physical subjects, such as the Georgick, and astronomical treatises of the ancients. . . . 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;... | |
 | 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 894
...the Georgick, and astronomical treatises of the ancients." But the Cham is pretty severe about it: "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;... | |
 | 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 734
...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... | |
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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, whether we wish to be useful... 
