 There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the...  The Spectator ... - الصفحة 2731803عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...set': them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is...sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. It was once said by Sir Thomas Overbury, that the man who has nothing to boast of but illustrious ancestors,... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, ami wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness;...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in erron, and active to his own prejudice. ADDISON. SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONNECTICUT COURANT. VOL. III. APRIL... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself look* like weakness ; (he ber<t parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and nrtive to bis own prejudice. 4 Discretion does not only make a man the master of his own parts, b«.t... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 858
...rest, sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is...only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, nnd active to his own prejudice. It was once said by Sir Thomas Overbury, that the man who has nothing... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...sets them at work in their proper times and places ; and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errours, and active to his own prejudice. talents of those with whom he converses, and knows how to... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; nay, virtue itself looks like weakness. Discretion not only •hows itself in words, but in all the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; nay, virtue itself looks like weakness. Discretion not only •hows itself in words, but in all the... | |
 | 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in bis errors, and active to his own prejudice. — ADDISON. THE SEA. ON the surface of this globe, there... | |
 | 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of (lie person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is...like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to bo more sprightly in his errors, and active to his own prejudice. — ADDISON. ON the surface of this... | |
 | 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 932
...is possessed of them. Without ft, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself look's elf describes them, bearing onlv a talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we... | |
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