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The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen ... - Sivu 365
tekijä(t) Jonathan Swift - 1774
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sivua
...Essay VIII., Of Married and Single Life. CENSORIOUS NESS. " Censure," says a late ingenious author, " ted until he has the ability to summon, in an emergency It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All...

A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 sivua
...a hundred years. Dr. Ogden, Sermon on Calumny. CENSURE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.' It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All...

The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 sivua
...same posture with creeping. HI company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. Censure history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a f accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in...

The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 sivua
...great, But many a man has lived an age too late. Л . ¿TODDARD — To Edmund Clarence Siedman. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. í. SVVIFT — Thoughts on Various Subject*. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. j. HENRY...

The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts ..., Nide 9

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 sivua
...to prudence and merit. 111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in...

The Works of Jonathan Swift: containing additional letters, tracts ..., Nide 9

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 sivua
...to prudence and merit. 111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in...

The Works, Nide 9

Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 sivua
...posture with creeping. 111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in...

Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sivua
...Sir James Mackintosh, Appendix to the Life of Sir Tkomat Mare. 2 See Matthew Henry. Page 233. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Thouyhtt on Various Subjects. A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. Ibid. The two noblest things, which...

Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Godlove S. Orth: (a ...

United States. Congress - 1883 - 80 sivua
...but it was an unhappy proof of flie power of calumny in party politics in a free government. "Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." But if there is one crime more dark and infamous than another it is the stabbing of fair and spotless...

The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice ..., Nide 5

1883 - 804 sivua
...Tighe. It is good to know a great deal ; but it is better to make a good use of what we do know. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent, 'tiunft. What's time, when on eternity we think? A thousand ages in that sea must sink: Time's nothing...




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