 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,...  The United States Literary Gazette - Page 4401824Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...Justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all t placies ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse...life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pages
...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...life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors,... | |
 | Giovanni Pierio Valeriano - 1821 - 160 pages
...are not the great , or the frequent business of the human mind. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. » — « Poets , orators, and historians are the authors , who supply most axioms of prudence , most... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetoally moralists, bnt we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse...voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of snch rare emergence, that one may know another hall' his life, without being able to estimate his skill... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axidms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...are virtues and ex- • cellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse...life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authours,... | |
 | George Jardine - 1825 - 556 pages
...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...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...justice are virtues and excellencies 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 speruhtiioiis upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and... | |
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