 | John Cockin - 1843 - 480 σελίδες
...Paley's Sermons, p. 342. BURNS. WRITTEN AFTER READINO THE LIFE OF HIM BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. " Those who disregard the common maxims of life, should be reminded...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Dr. Johnson. Burns is a writer in whom his countrymen glory, as a man of exalted genius, who was little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 σελίδες
...in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, skill he n of the parts of plants from their seminal principles....this number many things arc circumscribed; that the SWIFT. A» account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by... | |
 | 1844 - 778 σελίδες
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.'' KEBLE ON BUKNS. " Verum in hac re, sicut in orani »itt, plurimum ei norint insanui quidam ac plane... | |
 | 1845 - 440 σελίδες
...consequence of superior capacities ar.<l attainment, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence,...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. — Doctor Johnson. FIRST AND LAST THOUGHTS. In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in... | |
 | 1845 - 864 σελίδες
...in consequence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of lift, ougit to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence,...continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, ana genius contemptible.— Doctor Johnson. FIRST AND LAST THOUGHTS. In matters of conscience, frst... | |
 | 1846 - 544 σελίδες
...in consequence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence,...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 226 COLONIZATION OF GREKNLAND. COLONIZATION OF GREENLAND. EAR the end of the tenth century, an I celandic... | |
 | 1847 - 862 σελίδες
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.' But this is the one drop of vinegar amidst hosts of honied palliations. And after all, it goes not... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 σελίδες
...or written better than Savage ;' " but as a warning to all men of high attainments, he reminds such, "Nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Savage was not an infidel, though he lived the life of a man careless of futurity, and in one of his... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 σελίδες
...or written better than Savage;'" but as a warning to all men of high attainments, he reminds such, " Nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Savage was not an infidel, though he lived the life of a man careless of futurity, and in one of his... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 σελίδες
...disregard the common maxims of life, should remember that nothing can atone for the want of prudence ; that negligence and irregularity long continued, will...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. — Johnson. SIRIES HI. — VOL. VH. 58 MONMOITH, Warren coinily. 111., Oct. 22, 1650. BrothfT Gimpbtll:... | |
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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. 
