 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 - Page xxivby Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 139 pagesFull view - About this book
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