 There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the...  The Saturday Magazine - Side 2251835Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 sider
...most shining quality, giving value as it does to all the rest, sets them to work in their proper time and places, and turns them to the advantage of the...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors and active to his own principles. Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 sider
...ii is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper tunes and places, and turns them to the advantage of the...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Dio'f uSs'inil. — Bishop Watson. . — Shakespeare. DISEASES,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 sider
...man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world. Without it learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness."— Ibid. " Discretion is the dividing line between the wise and foolish." — Ibid. "Content is equivalent... | |
 | 1888 - 102 sider
...but there is none so useful as discretion. It is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest; which sets them at work in their proper times and...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors and active to his own prejudices. Discretion does not only make a man the master of his own... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1889 - 216 sider
...but there is none so useful, as discretion ; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Nor does discretion only make a man the master of his own... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 324 sider
...but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Nor does discretion only make a man the master of his own... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1889 - 218 sider
...illustrated in the following extract from one of Addison's essays : — which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and...advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without i(, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness; the hest parts... | |
 | 1891 - 556 sider
...so useful as discretion ; it Is this, indeed, that gives a value to all the rest, which sets them to work in their proper times and places, and turns them...impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best partsonly qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own principle. Addteon, It... | |
 | A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 sider
...but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and...best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Nor does discretion only make a man the master of his own... | |
 | Rebecca Smith Pollard - 1897 - 238 sider
...but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and...advantage of the person who is possessed of them. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What the sciilptor is to a block of marble,... | |
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