 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 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 knowled«v useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.105 109 I have always thought that a happy... | |
 | George Robertson - 1855 - 422 páginas
...superior capacities, disregard the common .maxims of lif«, will bis reminded that nothing will supply. the. want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and gejiius contemptible." No, lawyer, who uegTect* that maxim, can be true... | |
 | 1857 - 574 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." In the " People's Edition " of approved works in... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 páginas
...attainments, disregarding the common maxims of life, shall thus be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, and genius contemptible." — Dr. Johnson. FORBEARANCE. " WHAT are another's faults to me... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 378 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." Sheridan was very anxious to procure from Mr. Mansfield,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 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. 4. Perhaps every man may date the predominance of... | |
 | John Ella - 1869 - 388 páginas
...capacities or attainments, disregard the 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." Happily for that branch of the art promoted at the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 páginas
...appears to be playing with the subject; while the moral that ends the story, "that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible," loses none of its force by the fairness, indulgent... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 páginas
...tale with the kindliness of a true nature, while he drew from it the lesson " that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." 50. In 1745, Johnson, aged thirty-six, published... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 páginas
...capacities 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." Could anything be fairer or kindlier than this?... | |
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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. 
