 Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,...  Milton, with an Introduction and Notes - Страница 10по Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 139 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1825 - 574 страници
...are virtues and cxceilencies of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but ive are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Pbysiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life without being... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 страници
...geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speruhtiioiis upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 страници
...excellences of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians .only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy;... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - 1830 - 72 страници
...excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure." And in support of these views, Dr. Johnson appeals to Socrates, the ancient sage, who is proverbially... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 622 страници
...but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; oar speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare occurrence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 страници
...upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare 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,... | |
 | 1835 - 842 страници
...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physical learning id of euch rare 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. Tbo.se authors,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 страници
...moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is neces sary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 страници
...excellencies of all times and of all places; we arc perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians , generous, and candid, is a very high degree of merit in any case, but those qualities deserve may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy... | |
 | 1837 - 830 страници
...those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions'. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Those authors, therefore, are to he read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles... | |
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