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
| 1837 - 754 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 be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles... | |
| Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 страници
...excellencies 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 страници
...excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual...matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learn* ing is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to... | |
| Alexander Young - 1840 - 242 страници
...excellencies 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 страници
...all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are ;eometricians only by chance. Our in ercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, hat one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill n hydrostatics or... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 страници
...excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians he lion dares not murmur or rage, (for /réméré nre voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one ma) know... | |
| Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 страници
...the same causes; it is seen acting in the same ways and directions. It is remarked by Johnson — " Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure." And this is now more generally allowed than when he made this enlightened observation. The soul of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 страници
...excellencies «I all times anil of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we arc jreometricians onlv bv e, and his opinions pious: in a long continuance of poverty, and long habits of dissipation, leaning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate... | |
| 1843 - 948 страници
...excellencies 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... | |
| Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1844 - 590 страници
...excellencies 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... | |
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