 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - Počet stránok 256
...of bringing about even those events which he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. 8 Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide...after our immediate interest and welfare. Discretion is'only found in men of strong sense and good understandings : cunning is often to be met with in brutes... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - Počet stránok 358
...incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a...good understandings: cunning is often to be met with m brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them. In short, cunning is... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - Počet stránok 238
...of bringing about even those events which he might have done had he passed only for a plain man. 8. Discretion is the perfection of reason ; and a guide...Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding 1 cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves ; and in persons- Who are but... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - Počet stránok 1028
...greater authority to the person who possesses it : cunning, when it is once detected, loses its effect. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide...us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of DIS 365 DIS instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare. Discretion is only... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - Počet stránok 264
...done, had he passed only for a plain man. 8 Discretion is the perfection of reason ; and a guide to iid in all the duties of life ; cunning is a kind of instinct,...understandings: cunning is often to be met with in brutes them selves ; and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them. In short, cunning is only the... | |
 | 1836 - Počet stránok 1118
...incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done, had he passed only for a plain mai. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide...instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only (bund in men of strong sense and good understandings: cunning... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - Počet stránok 276
...incapable of bringing about even those events which, he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion is the perfection of reason ; and...the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct, th;it only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1838 - Počet stránok 1574
...incapable of bringing alK>ut even tho*e events which he might have done, had he l*ssed only for a plain man. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a...that only looks out after our immediate interest and wellure. Discretion is only found in men of rtrotig sense and good understandings; cunning is often... | |
 | Počet stránok 474
...flowing Space enough for acts can give : Harder is the life of truth Than all the heroic dreams of youth. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. MARY FRANKLIN. BY MARION. However we may exclaim against the world, as being the seat of universal... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - Počet stránok 276
...whkb he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion is the perfection of reason t and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is akindof instinct, that only looks out after our immediate kil&«-Qst and welfare. , Discretion is only... | |
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare. 
