 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...action are not known, but becaufe, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be juftly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into fliort fentences, that may be eafily imprefled on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...action are not known, but becaufe, for a time, they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be juftly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into fhort fentences, that may be eafily imprefled on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...action are not known, but becaufe, for a time, they are not remembered j and he may therefore be juftly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into fhort fentences, that may be eafily imprefled on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to... | |
 | 1801 - 320 pages
...action are not known, but becaufe, for a time, they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be juftly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into fhort fentences, that may be eafily imprefied on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because...known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pages
...rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because...known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be juotly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who»contracts the great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because...known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 272 pages
...rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because...action are not known, but because, for a time, they are noi remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 278 pages
...rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because...known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because...known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great... | |
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We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered... 
