 Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,...  Milton, with an Introduction and Notes - Σελίδα xxivτων Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 139 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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...nccef" fary ; our fpeculations upon matter are voluntary and at leifure. " Phyfical knowledge is of fuch rare emergence, that one man may " know another half his life, without being able to eftimate his /kill " in hydrodatics or aftronomy : but his moral and prudential charac" ter immediately... | |
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...are perpetually MORALISTS, but we are GEOMETRICIANS only by chance . , . Phyfkal knowledge is of fuch rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life, without being able to eftimate his fkill in HYDROSTATICS or ASTRONOMY ; but his moral and prudential charafter immediately... | |
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