 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 662 pages
...the same causes; it is seen acting in the same ways and directions. It is remarked by Johnson — " Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure." And this is now more generally allowed than when he made this enlightened observation. The soul of... | |
 | Henry Cruger Van Schaack - History - 1842 - 538 pages
...the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times, and all places. We are perpetually moralists, but we are...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...excellencies «I all times anil of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we arc jreometricians onlv bv e, and his opinions pious: in a long continuance of poverty, and long habits of dissipation, leaning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate... | |
 | 1843 - 454 pages
...prove, by events, the reasonableness of opinion. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies 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,... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - India - 1844 - 566 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, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - India - 1844 - 548 pages
...opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times, I i^BM^H SOCIETY IN INDIA. 367 and of all places — we are perpetually moralists...life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 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, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | William Ware - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1850 - 424 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, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. We were not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...and excellences of all times and all places. We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Life of Milton. Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...of all times, and of all places ; and we are perpetually moralists, hut we are geometricians only hy chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is...such rare emergence, that one may know another half his'l,fe, without heing ahle to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; hut his moral and... | |
| |
... 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... 
