...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, should be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." ........ . To those who may be in any way descendants of this eccentric individual* we will. simply...

...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, should be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." To those who may be in any way descendants of this eccentric individual, we will simply say that we...

...in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall he etermined to study physic, and repaid that contribution,...thought it dishonourable to retain. Whether, when he SWIFT. AN account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by Dr....

...which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him ; or those who, in confidence of superiour capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life,...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Our remarks on the Life of SWIFT shall be extremely brief. When, in travelling, we are met with a spot...

...did not exempt him ; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregarded the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, *H it ridiculous, and genius contemptible. SWIFT. As account of Dr. Swift has been already collected,...

...in confidence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence...knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible — Ib. 647. No man whose appetites are his masters, can perform the duties of his nature with strictness...

...occasioned embarrassments in his domestic affairs, but he had no friend to remind him, that nothing can supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and...irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge and wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 0 At what period of his life Carolan became an itinerant...

...which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life,...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. AN account of Dr. Swift has beea already collected, with great diligence and acuteness, by Dr. Hawkesworth,...

...disregard the common maxims of life, should remember that nothing can ntone for the want of prudence ; that negligence and irregularity long continued will...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. —JOHNSON. SEEK you to train your favourite boy ? Each caution, every care, employ, And, ere you venture...

...This relation will not be wholly without its use, if those who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life,...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." It is greatly to be regretted that he, who in these words proved how well he knew the nature and cause...