 | Samuel Johnson - 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
...embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary College. • Bu- 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 of the human mind. Whether we provide... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | Giovanni Pierio Valeriano - 1821 - 160 pages
...or what are so denominated , are the rage of the day. But I have Johnson's authority , that « these are not the great , or the frequent business of the human mind. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual... | |
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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... 
