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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... "
The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in ... - Seite 51
von Abner Alden - 1814 - 228 Seiten
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Band 2

1856 - 374 Seiten
...almost impossible, even in idea, to distinguish be tweeu the head and hair. — (iuhlsmit/t. CCCXV. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks...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...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

1856 - 570 Seiten
...Dispatch and of Skill ; but neither of them ever learn their masters' trade. (Kunning, — rjUNNINGr has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing...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...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others].

Spectator The - 1857 - 780 Seiten
...the most useful talent a man can be master of, 1 look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of hule, . This therefore was the first *ud laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing...
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A Sequel to the Gradual Reader

David Bates Tower - 1858 - 242 Seiten
...proper and most laudable methods of attaining them; cunning has only private, selfish aims, and.sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. 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...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 Seiten
...his particular station of life. 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...ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable means of attaining them ; cunning has only private, selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make...
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Literary Class Book; Or, Readings in English Literature: To which is ...

Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 Seiten
...impiety in all its fury. 11. 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...ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to ns, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them; cunning has only private selfish...
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The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series

Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 Seiten
...DISCRETION AND CUNNING. At the same time that I think discretion' the most useful talent that a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion'" point* out the noblent ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of obtaining* them...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...makes the difference ; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. La Bruyère. CUNNING AND DISCRETION. Cunning has only private, selfish aims, and sticks...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...
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The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series

Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 Seiten
...the same time that I think discretion' the most useful talent that a man can be master of, I loojc upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean,...and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of obtaining* them : cunning'" has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing that may make them...
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Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"

Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 Seiten
...his particular station of life. 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...Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a wellrformed eye, commands a whole horizon. Cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers the...
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