 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...EXAMPLES. 1. A-Jriend' cannot be known* in prosperity' ; and an enemy cannot be hidden' in adversity*. 2. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing1 to those* who come only for amusement', but prejudicial* to him' who would reap the profit*.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...fool is, that the former reasons justly from false data; and the latter erroneously from just data. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in com, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit.... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...EXAMPLES. 1. A friend' cannot be known" in prosperity' ; and an tnemy" cannot be hidden' in adversity". 2. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, plca~ ring' to those" who come only for amusement', but prejudicial* to him' who would reap the profit".... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...well dressed and argument put in order.— Jeremy Collier. Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn ; pleasing to those who come only...for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. — Swift. There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric ; but it oftener serves ill turns... | |
 | Samuel Warren, Thomas W. Clerke - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...expressed by Pope : — " Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses^ are like the blue ana red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only...for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap only the profit." — Thoughts on Various Subjects, xxix. be rather the results, than the precursors,... | |
 | 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. * * * Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who only come for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. * * * He who tells a lie... | |
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Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him... 
