The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always apply them (viz.) to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honour the wisdom of Providence in all... The Life of Daniel Defoe - Էջ 101Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Daniel Defoe - 1872 - 646 էջ
...being scarce capable of a greater Variety. The Story is told with Modesty, with Seriousness, and with ccordingly we went on board, took the arms which were left on board, out of her, Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact ; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 128 էջ
...Crusoe, in which he avows that his object is both " the diversion and the instruction of the reader," " to the instruction of others by this example, and...our circumstances, let them happen how they will." Defoe was no artist; and this very lack of art produces in Robinson Crusoe the same effect as the profoundest... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1877 - 440 էջ
...being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which...honour the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just history of... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 էջ
...monotoner. ÎBir finben ba einen foléen lufrcanb oon auofüfyr^en unb be= *) The story is told .... to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honour the wisdom of Providence. The Editor believes the thing to be a just history of facts: neither is there any appearance of fiction... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1881 - 404 էջ
...Variety. The Story is told with Modesty, with Seriousness, and with a Religious Application of Events the Uses to which wise Men always apply them (viz.)...Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1882 - 434 էջ
...being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which...circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just history of fact ; neither is there any appearance of fiction... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 էջ
...literally, as we have noticed. The preface to an old edition of Robinson Crusoe says: 'The story is told ... to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honor the wisdom of Providence. The editor believes the thing to be a just history of facts; neither... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1883 - 580 էջ
...being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which...circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just history of facts; neither is there any appearance of fiction... | |
| 1885 - 572 էջ
...scarce capable of a greater Variety. The Story is told with so much Modesty, with Seriousness, and with a religious Application of Events to the Uses to which...Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact ; neither is there any appearance of Fiction... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1895 - 438 էջ
...being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which...circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just history of fact ; neither is there any appearance of fiction... | |
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