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" The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. "
The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and ... - Strana 221
podľa Jonathan Swift - 1824
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The English Enchiridion; Being a Selection of Apothegms, Moral Maxims, Etc

John Feltham - 1799 - Počet stránok 146
...if you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. v. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable,...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. We increase the sense of virtue in ourselves, by the consciousness of virtue in others. VII....
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Zväzok 5

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - Počet stránok 486
...of an ass. It is a miserable thing to live in suspense ; it is the life of a spider, " Vive quid em, pende tamen, improba, dixit." OVID. Metam. The stoical...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so clinching is performed in the...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Zväzok 14

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - Počet stránok 386
...the merriest countenances in mourning coaches. Nothing more unqualifies a man to act with pru dence, than a misfortune that is attended with shame and...doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed ia the same posture with . creeping. Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Zväzok 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - Počet stránok 310
...observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning-coaches. Nothing more unqualifies a man to act with prudence,...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Amhition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climhing is performed in the...
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Hudibras: Poem, Zväzok 1

Samuel Butler - 1812 - Počet stránok 876
...real life, except by those who have met with misfortunes in the world; for, as Swift well observes, the power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to pmdcnce or merit. V. 845-45. A Persian tir.p'ror tr/itpp'd his grannam, The sea, &c.] The bridge of...
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His ..., Zväzok 1

Jonathan Swift - 1823 - Počet stránok 342
...Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are nut admitted to be jurors upon life and death. The reason...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Amhition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climhing is performed in the...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Zväzok 1

John Timbs - 1829 - Počet stránok 354
...Virtue, if not in action, is a vice; And, when we move not forward, we go backward. Massinger. MCXCIX. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable;...happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. — Swift. MCC. In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Zväzok 1

Laconics - 1829 - Počet stránok 390
...Virtue, if not in action, is a vice; And, when we move not forward, we go backward. Massinger. MCXCIX. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable;...happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. — Sunft. MCC. In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear...
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - Počet stránok 272
...Better than pomp, by crowds adored, Or gold immeasurably stored,— A pure and spotless Name. PINDAR. AMBITION often puts men upon doing the meanest offices...climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. SWIFT. THE seraph Sympathy, from heaven descends, And bright o'er earth his beaming forehead bends,...
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Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed ...

Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - Počet stránok 360
...comparing us with himself, he thinks us defective either in our conduct or understanding.—Addison. 826. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.—Swift. 827. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what...
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