All 4 Uses of
prudent
in
Walden
- In this course which our ancestors took there was a show of prudence at least, as if their principle were to satisfy the more pressing wants first.†
Chpt 1
- This low abject brood, That fix their seats in mediocrity, Become your servile minds; but we advance Such virtues only as admit excess, Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence, All-seeing prudence, magnanimity That knows no bound, and that heroic virtue For which antiquity hath left no name, But patterns only, such as Hercules, Achilles, Theseus.†
Chpt 1
- and they thought that a prudent man would carefully select the safest position,†
Chpt 6 *
- While yet it is cold January, and snow and ice are thick and solid, the prudent landlord comes from the village to get ice to cool his summer drink; impressively, even pathetically, wise, to foresee the heat and thirst of July now in January—wearing a thick coat and mittens! when so many things are not provided for.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful