 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
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 pages
...only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matters are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning...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 - 1892 - 180 pages
...excellences, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geome10 tricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual...Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 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...intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matters are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 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...intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matters are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 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 hydrostaticks or astronomy... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1896 - 756 pages
...Matter are voluntary, and at leisure. " Physiological learning is of such rare emergence that one " man may know another half his life without being able...astronomy ; but his " moral and prudential character immediatelyappears. Those " authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply " most axioms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 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 with intellectual nature is 10 necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only bv chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is...know another half his life, without being able to estimate^his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character immediately... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1901 - 436 pages
...which he means a knowledge of the laws and phenomena of the external world] is of such rare emergency, that one may know another half his life without being...moral and prudential character immediately appears. ply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and... | |
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