 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a successon of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | 1823 - 876 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason aod truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, to use expressions... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 pages
...abilities might be made subservientto truth andjustice. " He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated rnirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 394 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to nit, and ttMiht 'nnfM*pin*" no*- tn hf fiT"""!^ This is an elevation_of literary .character, "above... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long- connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to if s dignity, and tuught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and truth. He has dissipated the prejndice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
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... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character... 
