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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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets - Página 380
por Samuel Johnson - 1792
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Murray's Magazine, Volumen7

1890 - 882 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 conducted himself in an entirely different...
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A first sketch of English literature. With suppl. to the end of queen ...

Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 páginas
...tale with the kindliness of a true nature, while he drew from it the lesson " that nothing will supply # useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." 50. In 1745, Johnson, aged thirty-six, published...
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The Life of Oscar Wilde

Robert Harborough Sherard - 1906 - 540 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." It is not, indeed, to point afresh this moral that...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 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 25 knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. PREFATORY NOTE ON THE LIFE OF ADDI80N...
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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volumen60

1893 - 490 páginas
...capacities and 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 learning contemptible." 1893.] BAJLY'S MAGAZINE. [AUGUST Colours, Yellow,...
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Cultural Studies in Question

Marjorie Ferguson, Peter Golding - 1997 - 280 páginas
...recent years I am reminded of Dr Johnson's judgement on the life of Richard Savage, 'nothing will supply the Want of Prudence, and that Negligence and Irregularity, long continued, will make Knowledge useless, Wit ridiculous and Genius contemptible'. Note I Aspects of this argument appeared in an earlier...
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Biography: Writing Lives

Catherine Neal Parke - 2002 - 210 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.1 Johnson offers no simple, complacent moral. Here,...
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British Biography: A Reader

Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 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 direct address to his audience and his...
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Das eigene und das fremde Leben: biographische Identitätsentwürfe in der ...

Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 páginas
...Funktion des Exemplarischen noch einmal an. Der Biograph schließt mit den Worten: "nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."254 Gleichzeitig aber geht Savage nicht in diesem...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volúmenes15-16

1800 - 534 páginas
...who, in confidence of fuperior Capacities or attainments, difregard the common maxims of life, (hall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of...ufelefs, •wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." He had paffed quietly " to the country from whofe bourne no traveller returns," and was neatly forgotten,...
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