| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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 - 1008 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, an4 genius contemptible. — Da. Joii.s^- • •• . THE COLOURS OF THE... | |
| 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... | |
| John Cockin - 1843 - 480 páginas
...CUNNINGHAM. " Those who 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." Dr. Johnson. Burns is a writer in whom his countrymen... | |
| 1844 - 778 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.'' KEBLE ON BUKNS. " Verum in hac re, sicut in orani... | |
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