 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 - 1846 - 714 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...estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but liis moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 478 pages
...upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life, without being able...character immediately appears. Those authors therefore are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and... | |
 | William Ware - 1850 - 410 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 - 1851 - 360 pages
...and excellences of all times and all places. We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Life of Milton. Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...of all times, and of all places ; and we are perpetually moralists, hut we are geometricians only hy chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is...such rare emergence, that one may know another half his'l,fe, without heing ahle to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; hut his moral and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...and excellences of all times and all places. We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Life of Miltm. Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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 - 1854 - 468 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...all times and all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Oar intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...character immediately appears. "Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 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...at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergency that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill iu hydrostatics... | |
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