 | 1845 - 440 pages
...capacities ar.<l attainment, 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. — Doctor Johnson. FIRST AND LAST THOUGHTS. In matters of... | |
 | 1845 - 864 pages
...capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of lift, ougit to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, ana genius contemptible.— Doctor Johnson. FIRST AND LAST THOUGHTS. In matters of... | |
 | 1846 - 544 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. 226 COLONIZATION OF GREKNLAND. COLONIZATION OF GREENLAND.... | |
 | 1847 - 854 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.' But this is the one drop of vinegar amidst hosts of honied... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...better than Savage;'" but as a warning to all men of high attainments, he reminds such, " Nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Savage was not an infidel, though he lived the life of a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 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...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Life of Savage. Imprisonment. It is not so dreadful in a high... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1851 - 794 pages
...the most important item in this — at least, so far as I am concerned. It is observed by Dr. Johnson "that nothing can supply the want of prudence, and...negligence and irregularity, long continued, will render knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." This sententious apothegm is thrown... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...aapacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to 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. Ufe of Savage. Imprisonment. It is not so dreadful in a high... | |
 | 1853 - 334 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. JOHNSON. THE COMFORTS OF A VOYAGE. IMAGINATIVE reader ! have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 pages
...capacities or attainments, disregarded 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. JOHN BYROM.* (1691-1763.) John Byrom, a younger son of Edward... | |
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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. 
