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" 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 440
1824
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 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...skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral and prndential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that...
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An Address, Delivered at Ipswich, Before the Essex County Lyceum, at Their ...

Daniel Appleton White - 1830 - 72 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...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...
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical ..., Volume 2

James Bell - 1832 - 622 pages
...justice 'are virtues and excellencies of all times, ami of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; 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...
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Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 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...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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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2

1835 - 842 pages
...necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physical learning id of euch rare emergence, that one may know another half his...moral and prudential character immediately appears. Tbo.se authors, therefore, are to be read at schools tbat supply most axioms of prudence, most principles...
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Poetical Works: Biography of Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...justice are virtues and excellences of all times and all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is neces sary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning is of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we arc perpetually moralists, but others. To be humane, generous, and candid, is a...of merit in any case, but those qualities deserve are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 9

1837 - 830 pages
...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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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 9

1837 - 754 pages
...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...
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A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Reverend John Thornton Kirkland ...

Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 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...moral and prudential character immediately appears. We were not placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars, but to learn how...
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