 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...and 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. Ufe of Savage. Imprisonment. It is not so dreadful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 pages
...capacities or 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. JOHN BYROM.* (1691-1763.) John Byrom, a younger son... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 pages
...capacities or 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 knowled«v useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.105 109 I have always thought that a happy... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...superior capacities, disregard the common .maxims of lif«, will bis reminded that nothing will supply. the. want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and gejiius contemptible." No, lawyer, who uegTect* that maxim, can be true... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...capacities or 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." In the " People's Edition " of approved works in... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...attainments, disregarding the common maxims of life, shall thus be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, and genius contemptible." — Dr. Johnson. FORBEARANCE. " WHAT are another's faults to me... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 378 pages
...capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, will 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." Sheridan was very anxious to procure from Mr. Mansfield,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 pages
...and 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 - Music - 1869 - 388 pages
...capacities 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 - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...appears to 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... | |
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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. 
