| 1800 - 620 páginas
...capacities or attainments, difregard the common maxims of life, ihall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge ufeleft, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Of the intermediate and fabfequent lives, the moft... | |
| Thomas James Mathias - 1801 - 612 páginas
...or attainments, disregard the " tomnun maxims of life, shall be reminded that Hotting <wi/l suff/f " the -want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, «' long continued, will make knowledge use/us, viit ritficulees, " and genius conttmf title." " Deign on the passing world to cast thine eyes,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 páginas
...capacities or attainments, difregard the commort maxims of life, fhall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge ufelefs, wjt ridiculous, and genius contemptible. ''/• ' •'•• ' y 7 / '•'' ,7, ;,,-.. (*r,••)'... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 páginas
...or or attainments, difregard the common maxims of* life, fhall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge ufelefs, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. EN1> OF THE TENTH VOLUME. trinttti h NICHOLS and... | |
| 1802 - 442 páginas
...sometimes, occasioned embarrassments in his domestic affairs ; but he had no friend to remind him " th.*t nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that...make knowledge useless,' wit ridiculous, and genius contemplible." Dr. Jobnan. At what period of his life Carolan commenced an itinerant musician, is not... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...in consequence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Life of Savage. IMPRISONMENT. Few are mended by imprisonment; and he whose crimes have made confinement... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 3 O a, &WIFT SWI .F T. AN Account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and... | |
| Richard Savage - 1805 - 284 páginas
...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. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS; BY RICHARD SAVAGE. WEW.YORK: PRINTED BY WILLIAM A. DAVIS, IBfl, 39 5Billiain«Strmf... | |
| William Collins - 1805 - 266 páginas
...confidence of their superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." — Vide Johnson's Life of Savage, 156 That Dr. Johnson evidently means all the consequences here denounced... | |
| William Collins (picture-dealer.) - 1805 - 260 páginas
...confidence of their superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that 'nothing will supply the want of...make knowledge useless^ wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."—Fide Johnson's Life of Savage, That Dr. Johnson evidently means all the consequences... | |
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