Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Learning by example

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Imlac

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Samuel Johnson

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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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English

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1759 1750s 18th century

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Age of Enlightenment

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Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 30.

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Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 30.

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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Rhetoric
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Samuel Johnson

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James Boswell
Source
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
Genre
Biography
Language
English
Time
1763 1760s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 31 July 1763.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Another quote from the 1750s

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Edmund Burke

Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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Schadenfreude

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Edmund Burke
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Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1757 1750s 18th century
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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 1, sec. 14.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 1, sec. 14.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

Letters of Alexander Pope

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Nature of women Women

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Alexander Pope
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Letters of Alexander Pope
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1735 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. Letter to M. Blount. 1735, I. 270.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to a Lady." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009.