... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Annual Register - Página 210editado por - 1800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Gorton - 1833 - 918 páginas
...the memorable words of hifl great biographer, Johnson, a lamentable proof that " nothing can supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible, — Life by Johnson. . .SA VARY. There were several... | |
| William Johnstoun N. Neale - 1836 - 954 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, should be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." ........ . To those who may be in any way descendants... | |
| 1836 - 332 páginas
...capacities or attaimnents, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge inseless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible, i JOHNSON. THE COMFORTS OF A VOYAGE. IMAGINATIVE... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 274 páginas
...capacity or learning, disregard the common maxima of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Sheridan's folly made his end the most striking... | |
| William Johnson Neale - 1836 - 210 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, should be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." To those who may be in any way descendants of this... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 páginas
...and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence — and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible — Ib. 647. No man whose appetites are his masters,... | |
| James Wilson - 1838 - 372 páginas
...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... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 688 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Our remarks on the Life of SWIFT shall be extremely... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. AN account of Dr. Swift has beea already collected,... | |
| 1842 - 542 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." It is greatly to be regretted that he, who in these... | |
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