 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 - 第441页1825全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1907 - 436 页
...virtues of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure.'" Wise and admirable words ! The first requisite is the knowledge of right and wrong. Alas! that we should... | |
 | William Gardner Hale - 1888 - 56 页
...the like, and pretty nearly true of the forgetting of them. And so Dr. Johnson is practically.right. "Physiological learning is of such rare emergence that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 页
...of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geome10 tricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is...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 HILL - 1892 - 418 页
...only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matters are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning...emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 页
...only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matters are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning...emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 页
...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...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 758 页
...excellences of all times and all places; we are per" petually moralists, but are geometricians only by chance. " Our intercourse with Intellectual Nature...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 页
...moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is 10 necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,...emergence that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 页
...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...emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate^his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1901 - 426 页
...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...are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning [by which he means a knowledge of the laws and phenomena of the external world] is of such rare emergency,... | |
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