 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...expounder of those rules has observed, " The most ingenious way ot becoming foolish is by a system: and the surest method to prevent good sense is to set up something in the room of it*." He, who either writes or acts according to the impulse of natural feeling and common... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...common letter. — Franklin. LXXXIX. The moat ingenious way of becoming foolish. «s by a system. And the surest method to prevent good sense, is to set up something in the room of it. The liker any thing is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself the more directly... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...common letter. — Franklin. LXXXIX. The most ingenious way of becoming foolish, is by a system. And the surest method to prevent good sense, is to set up something in the room of it. The liker any thing is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself, the more directly... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...common letter.— Franklin. LXXXIX. The most ingenious way of becoming foolish, is by a system. And the surest method to prevent good sense, is to set up something in the room of it. The liker any thing is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself, the more directly... | |
 | Anne Judith Penny - 1858 - 304 pages
...How well was it said by Shaftesbury, "The most ingenious way of becoming foolish is by a system, and the surest method to prevent good sense is to set up something in the room of it. The liker any thing is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself, the more directly... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1900 - 420 pages
...worse than mere ignorance or idiotism. The most ingenious way of becoming foolish is by a system. And the surest method to prevent good sense is to set up something in the room of it. The liker anything is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself, the more directly... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 376 pages
...worse than mere Ignorance or Idiotism. The most ingenious way of becoming foolish, is by a System. And the surest Method to prevent good Sense, is to set up something in the room of it. The liker any thing is to Wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing it-self, the more directly... | |
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... or idiotism. The most ingenious way of becoming foolish is by a system. And the surest method to prevent good sense is to set up something in the room of it. 