 | Boston Latin School (Mass.) - Education - 1820 - 378 pages
...and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually...life, with-out being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 502 pages
...and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually...and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles... | |
 | Giovanni Pierio Valeriano - 1821 - 160 pages
...Johnson's authority , that « these are not the great , or the frequent business of the human mind. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. » — « Poets , orators, and historians are the authors , who supply most axioms of prudence , most... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetoally moralists, bnt we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse...voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of snch rare emergence, that one may know another hall' his life, without being able to estimate his skill... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually...and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axidms of prudence, most principles... | |
 | Levi Frisbie - Ethics - 1823 - 310 pages
...prove by events, the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually...moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance." Few, I believe, ever acquired clearer ideas on the subjects of knowledge here recommended, or were... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...prove, by events, the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually...and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 506 pages
...prove, by events, the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually...moral and prudential character immediately appears. Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantick or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually...life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all places; we are perpetually moralists, hut we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse...his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his .moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
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... is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice... 
