 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 стор.
...attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 4. Perhaps every man may date the predominance of... | |
 | John Ella - 1869 - 388 стор.
...or attainments, disregard the maxims of life, should be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Happily for that branch of the art promoted at the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 стор.
...be playing with the subject; while the moral that ends the story, "that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible," loses none of its force by the fairness, indulgent... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 стор.
...the kindliness of a true nature, while he drew from it the lesson " that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." 50. In 1745, Johnson, aged thirty-six, published... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 стор.
...attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Could anything be fairer or kindlier than this ?... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 стор.
...attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Could anything be fairer or kindlier than this?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 стор.
...attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, should be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Prudence is of more frequent use than any other intellectual... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1875 - 408 стор.
...attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Sterne died poor, if he did not die insolvent. At... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 стор.
...attainments disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." — Johnson's Life of Savage. Miss MARGARET M'Avot.... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 стор.
...attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. — Johnson. A man cannot possess anything that is... | |
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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. 
