 | 1836 - 332 oldal
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attaimnents, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge inseless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible, i JOHNSON. THE COMFORTS OF A VOYAGE. IMAGINATIVE... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 oldal
...in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall he etermined to study physic, and repaid that contribution,...thought it dishonourable to retain. Whether, when he SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by Dr.... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 oldal
...in confidence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence...knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible — Ib. 647. No man whose appetites are his masters, can perform the duties of his nature with strictness... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 oldal
...who, in confidence of superiour capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Our remarks on the Life of SWIFT shall be extremely brief. When, in travelling, we are met with a spot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 oldal
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, *H it ridiculous, and genius contemptible. SWIFT. As account of Dr. Swift has been already collected,... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 oldal
...occasioned embarrassments in his domestic affairs, but he had no friend to remind him, that nothing can supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge and wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 0 At what period of his life Carolan became an itinerant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 oldal
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. AN account of Dr. Swift has beea already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by Dr. Hawkesworth,... | |
 | 1841 - 276 oldal
...disregard the common maxims of life, should remember that nothing can ntone for the want of prudence ; that negligence and irregularity long continued will...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. —JOHNSON. SEEK you to train your favourite boy ? Each caution, every care, employ, And, ere you venture... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 oldal
...rich storehouse for th'. glory of tie Creator and the relief of man's estate.— LOUD BACON. THO«F. who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments...continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, an4 genius contemptible. — Da. Joii.s^- • •• . THE COLOURS OF THE DEW-DROP. THE resplendent... | |
 | 1842 - 542 oldal
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." It is greatly to be regretted that he, who in these words proved how well he knew the nature and cause... | |
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... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 
