 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1887 - 284 pagine
...the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellect, not nature, is necessary; our speculations upon matters are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological... | |
 | William Gardner Hale - 1888 - 56 pagine
...reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence that one may know another half his life without being... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1907 - 436 pagine
...events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians...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... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1888 - 240 pagine
...events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all places. We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pagine
...reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagine
...reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians...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 pagine
...reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians...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 - 1892 - 180 pagine
...excellences, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geome10 tricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pagine
...of opinions. 20 Prudence and Justice are virtues, and excellences, of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pagine
...reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without... | |
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... wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all... 
