 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we...chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is neces sary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning is of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we arc n in his profession than in others. To be humane,...of merit in any case, but those qualities deserve hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | 1837 - 754 pages
...those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pages
...those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions'. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Those authors, therefore, are to he read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 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...his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. We were not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 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...matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learn* ing is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - England - 1838 - 274 pages
...which Johnson has closely copied where he says, ' 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;' and which he may have had in his mind when he elsewhere wrote: ' if, instead of wandering after the... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 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...his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. We were not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies countrymen, who have in ancient times made France...the lion dares not murmur or rage, (for /réméré nre voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one ma) know... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are ;eometricians only by chance. Our in ercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, hat one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill n hydrostatics or... | |
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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... 
