 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 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. SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 páginas
...or attainments, disregarded 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. SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected... | |
 | Charles Bulter - 1827 - 284 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, will 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." Most anxious was Mr. Sheridan to procure from Mr.... | |
 | 1827 - 640 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, will 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." ' Most anxious was Mr. Sheridan to procure from... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 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. — Johnson's Lives. A wicked man reduced to hardships... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 884 páginas
...of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life ; that nothing can supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, art ridiculous, and genius contemptible." The poems which Boy.se wrote for magazines and other... | |
 | 1830 - 828 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, will 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 *).'' 2)en geil, jeg Ijer baöler, er bog t aííe... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
