| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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