| 1800 - 620 pages
...capacities or attainments, difregard the common maxims of life, ihall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge ufeleft, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Of the intermediate and fabfequent lives, the moft... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...or or attainments, difregard the common maxims of* life, fhall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge ufelefs, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. EN1> OF THE TENTH VOLUME. trinttti h NICHOLS and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...capacities or attainments, difregard the commort maxims of life, fhall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge ufelefs, wjt ridiculous, and genius contemptible. ''/• ' •'•• ' y 7 / '•'' ,7, ;,,-.. (*r,••)'... | |
| Thomas James Mathias - 1801 - 612 pages
...or attainments, disregard the " tomnun maxims of life, shall be reminded that Hotting <wi/l suff/f " the -want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, «' long continued, will make knowledge use/us, viit ritficulees, " and genius conttmf title." " Deign on the passing world to cast thine eyes,... | |
| 1802 - 442 pages
...occasioned embarrassments in his domestic affairs ; but he had no friend to remind him " th.*t nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless,' wit ridiculous, and genius contemplible." Dr. Jobnan. At what period of his life Carolan commenced... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to 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. Life of Savage. IMPRISONMENT. Few are mended by imprisonment;... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 3 O a, &WIFT SWI .F T. AN Account of Dr. Swift has been already... | |
| William Collins (picture-dealer.) - 1805 - 260 pages
...capacities and 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."—Fide Johnson's Life of Savage, That Dr. Johnson evidently... | |
| William Collins - 1805 - 266 pages
...capacities and 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." — Vide Johnson's Life of Savage, 156 That Dr. Johnson evidently... | |
| Richard Savage - 1805 - 284 pages
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS; BY RICHARD SAVAGE. WEW.YORK: PRINTED... | |
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