 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 394 Seiten
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. I ... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 Seiten
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 Seiten
...or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected... | |
 | Charles Bulter - 1827 - 284 Seiten
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, will be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Most anxious was Mr. Sheridan to procure from Mr.... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 Seiten
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. — Johnson's Lives. A wicked man reduced to hardships... | |
 | 1827 - 640 Seiten
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, will be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." ' Most anxious was Mr. Sheridan to procure from... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 884 Seiten
...of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life ; that nothing can supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, art ridiculous, and genius contemptible." The poems which Boy.se wrote for magazines and other... | |
 | 1830 - 828 Seiten
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, will be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible *).'' 2)en geil, jeg Ijer baöler, er bog t aííe... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 918 Seiten
...the memorable words of hifl great biographer, Johnson, a lamentable proof that " nothing can supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible, — Life by Johnson. . .SA VARY. There were several... | |
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... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 
