 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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...of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or con-~r versation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the • first requisite is(ihe religious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 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...of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversai tion, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and... | |
 | 1825 - 574 pages
...education. [Mr Pickering here read the following extract from Johnson's Life of Milton : — " The truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...are not the great or the frequent business of the buman mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing,... | |
 | 1825 - 492 pages
...education. [Mr Pickering here read the following extract from Johnson's Life of Milton : — "The truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences...requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent husiness of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to he useful... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...of physical subjects ; such as the Georgic, and astronomical treatises of the ancients;" but adds, " that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires and includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind ;" that the " first requisite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 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 inclndes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 622 pages
...is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences included or implied in that knowledge, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action, or amusement, or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 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...requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of rio;ht and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college. But the truth is, ) dr )w - ̒:neu< XL ܇ #1 *^z ( T AS ٥ ,sf...}d_8 d = QC ˇ g f *[꒗ zw Ėڳ )c8 g 𦐫 ` i > : ' I > i and wrong; Ihe next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pages
...quoted in this age of pseudo-philosophy, " and the sciences which that knowledge includes or requires, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we wish to provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite... | |
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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... 
