 | Andrew Jackson Graham - Shorthand - 1887 - 134 pages
...and excellencies of all times and all places. We are perpetually moralists, but we aie geometricians by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. — Dr. Johnson. (al. How is blmest oifulnesi written ? See the Hand-Book, §282, 2. This disjoined... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Education - 1887 - 284 pages
...necessary; our speculations upon matters are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such emergence that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 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 Gardner Hale - Classical education - 1888 - 56 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...his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1888 - 240 pages
...and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all places. We are perpetually moralists, but we...life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. 20 Prudence and Justice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 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...chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is 10 necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1901 - 426 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...are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning [by which he means a knowledge of the laws and phenomena of the external world] is of such rare emergency,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1901 - 428 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...are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning [by which he means a knowledge of the laws and phenomena of the external world] is of such rare emergency,... | |
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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... 
