 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 sayfa
...did not exempt him ; or those who, in confidence of superiour capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Our remarks on the Life of SWIFT shall be extremely brief. When, in travelling, we are met with a spot... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 sayfa
...in confidence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence...knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible — Ib. 647. No man whose appetites are his masters, can perform the duties of his nature with strictness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 sayfa
...Savage did not exempt him; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. AN account of Dr. Swift has beea already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by Dr. Hawkesworth,... | |
 | 1842 - 542 sayfa
...wholly without its use, if those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." It is greatly to be regretted that he, who in these words proved how well he knew the nature and cause... | |
 | John Cockin - 1843 - 480 sayfa
...READINO THE LIFE OF HIM BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. " Those who disregard the common maxims of life, should be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence;...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... | |
 | 1844 - 778 sayfa
...did not exempt him ; or if those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that...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 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 544 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...be without its use, ' if those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that...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 sayfa
...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... | |
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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. 
