... with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the... Rasselas: A Tale - 34. oldalszerző: Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 155 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 oldal
...inexhaustible variety: for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will have most powe.r...unexpected instruction. "All the appearances of nature I xvas therefore careful to study, and every country which I have surveyed has contributed something... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 oldal
...inexhaustible variety: for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 oldal
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...poetical powers." " In so wide a survey, said the prince, you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 oldal
...inexhaustible variety ; for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will have most power...nature I was therefore careful to study, and every coun. try which I have surveyed lias contributed something to my poetical powers." " In so wide a survey,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 oldal
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. 1 have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 oldal
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...powers." • " In so wide a survey," said the prince, " you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 oldal
...useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he who knows most, will hare most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratifying...powers." " In so wide a survey," said the prince, "you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived, till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 oldal
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth : and he who knows most will have most power...to study, and every country which I have surveyed bas contributed something to my poetical powers.' ' In so wide a survey,' said the prince, ' you must... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 oldal
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcemeut or decoration of moral or religious truth; and he, who knows most, will have most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratify inghis reader with remote allusion* and unexpected instruction. " All ihe appearances of nature... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 oldal
...inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power...poetical powers." " In so wide a survey, said the prince, you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived till now, within the circuit of these mountains,... | |
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