 | 1822 - 634 pages
...This sometimes occasioned embarrassments in his domestic affairi ; but he had no friend to remind him, "that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long rontinued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." At what period of... | |
 | 1808 - 742 pages
...confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, and evinced that nothing will supply the • want of prudence...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Elliston gave the character its full effect, insomuch that those who were present, knowing Savage's... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1808 - 682 pages
...capacities or attainments, disregard " the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing " Kill supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and...useless, " wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." " Deign on the passing world to cast thine eyes, " And pause awhile from letters, TO BE WISE." (yy)... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1808 - 684 pages
...attainments, disregard " the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing " Kill supply the vaunt of prudence, and that negligence and " irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, " sit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.'" " Deign on the passing world to cast thine eyes, " And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pages
...in confidence of superior capacities or or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous^ and genius contemptible. END OF THE TENTH VOLUME. Printed by John Nichols and Son, Red-Lion Passage, Fleet-Street, London. I*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by Dr.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. END OF THE TENTH VOLUME. JANE AITKEN, PRINTER, S». 71, N. Tbintnreet, Philadelphia. \ i L X.^ ^Vi... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. END OF THE TENTH VOLUME. JANE AITKEN, TRINTER, .--c. 71, N. ThM4tne<,naadclpliia. o JftHS o JJMr»«OH... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...disregard the common maxims of life, should remember, that nothing can atone for the want of prudence; that negligence and irregularity, long continued,...make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemtible." YARICO TO INKLE : AN EPISTLE. Dear, faithless man ! if e'er that cruel breast love's... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 544 pages
...monuments of poetical talents, and adding another testimony to the truth of Dr. Johnson's observation, '< that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and...make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."i DELAMET (ADRIAN AUGUSTIN DE Bussi), a learned doctor of the house and society of the... | |
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... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 
