 | Great Britain - 1778 - 378 pages
...their inftruction agreeable, and their diverfion ufeful. For which reafons I fhall endeavour to enh'ven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if poffible, both ways find their account in the fpeculation of the day. And to the end that their virtue... | |
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...to make their inftruction agreeable, and their diverfion ufeful. For which reafons I (hall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if poffible, both ways find their account in the (peculation, of the day. And to the end that their virtue... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...to make their inftrucTion agreeable, and their diverfion ufeful. For which reafons I (hall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if poflible, both ways find their account in the Speculation of the day. And to the end that their virtue... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...to make their instruction agreeable, and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with...account in the speculation of the day. And to the «nd that their virtue and discretion may not be ahort, transient, intermitting starts of thought,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...to make their instruction agreeable, and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with...resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, until I have recovered them out of that desperate state of vice and folly, into which the age is fallen.... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...to make their instruction agreeable, and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with...discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting stars of thought, I h«ve resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have recovered... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...to make their instruction pgreeable, and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with...discretion may not be short, transient, intermitting stars of thought, I have resolved to refresh their memories from day to day, till I have recovered... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...to make their instruction agreeable, and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, if possible, both wavs find their account in the speculation of the day. And to the end that their virtue and discretion... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...publications was in the highest degree laudable and excellent. " I shall endeavour," says Steele himself, "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with...find their account in the speculation of the day. It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven to inhabit among men. I shall... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...which he had adopted for the purpose of carrying his intentions into exccution. "I shall endeavor," he observes, "to enliven morality with wit, and to...morality, that my readers may, if possible, both ways find thcir account in the speculation of the day. And to the end that thcir virtue and discretion may not... | |
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Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers... 
