 | 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
...the 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...wanting to the 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
...wanting to the embellishments of life, formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...wanting to the embellishments' of life', formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college. But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature,...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... | |
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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. 
