 | 1824 - 604 pages
...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." REVIEW. — Bunyan explained to a Child; being Pictures and... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 388 pages
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, should 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." The example of Sir Joshua Reynolds is an illustrious contrast... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...capacities cr at'• tainments, disregard the common maxima of life, be reminded that " nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridi" culous, and genius contemptible." Wilson having now encro&ched on his hours of industry,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 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. END OF THE TENTH VOLUME. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RBFERENCB... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...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 VOL. II. Lniulon : Printed liy TlmmaS D..VISOII, Lombard-street,... | |
 | 1821 - 426 pages
...(to use the forcible language of Dr. Johnson on a similar occasion) " will not bewholly without Us use, if it remind those, who, in confidence of superior...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Q2 CARTER, Elizabeth, — the learned translator of Epictetus,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 318 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. ENCOMIUMS ON SAVAGE. FROM DYER'S EPISTLE TO SAVAGE. THEE,... | |
 | John Cole - 1823 - 238 pages
..."will not be wholly without its use, if it remind those, who in confidence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life,...of prudence , and that negligence and Irregularity, ljug continued, will make knowledge useless, wit riiictilons, and genins contemptible."^ tJENlUS. -... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...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 xiseless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. END OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME. LONDON : BY s. AND H.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 394 pages
...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 ... | |
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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. 
