 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 ページ
...it will be necessary to pause after each, in order to show the contrast more distinctly. EXAMPLES. At the same time that I think discretion the most...has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing that may make them succeed. Discretion, has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 ページ
...Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of obtaining them : cunning has only private -selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which maj make iliem succeed. 8. Discretion has large and extended views, and like a well formed eye, commands... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 ページ
...tion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of obtaining them : cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. 8. Discretion has large anil extended views, and like a •wellformed eye, commands a whole horizon... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 ページ
...and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his particular station of life. .•'. At the same time that I think discretion the most...Discretion has large and extended views; and, like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 ページ
...perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his particular station of life. At the same, time that I think discretion the most...Discretion has large and extended views, and like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness that discovers the... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 ページ
...necessary to pause after each, in order to show the contrast more distinctEXAMTLES. At the same time that 1 think discretion the most useful talent a man can...Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon i Cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810 - 488 ページ
...the noblest ends fto us, and pursues the most proIper and laudable methods of atDIS 235 DIS laming them ; cunning has only private selfish aims, and...Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ; cunning is a kind of short-sightedness that discovers the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 ページ
...in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life. At the same time that I think discretion the most...selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them sueceed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 ページ
...steady and perpetual serenity. II. At the same time that 1 think discretion the most useful talent a nun can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ; cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 ページ
...proper -•-_"- I'^nd laudable methods of attaining them ; cunning has only pri,.y-"lV y*te> selfislj aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them -,,'.<;....discretion has large and extended views, and like a •;"-. **i *well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ; cunning is a kind ^-."'liK shortsightedness,... | |
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At the same, time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable... 
