 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 - 1838 - 716 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...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...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 pages
...justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but an it be said, that the 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 454 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but n artfully constructed, so as to excite cunoaitv,...equalled every other poet. He has involved in fas 1 hose authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1844 - 548 pages
...all times, I i^BM^H SOCIETY IN INDIA. 367 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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 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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