 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 sivua
...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....distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it. Cunning, when it is good and evil — knavery,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 sivua
...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...hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. 12. It was the boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble. But how much... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 sivua
...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...hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. 4* Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ; the one... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1851 - 888 sivua
...nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views-, and, like a well formod eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of...discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but not able to discern things at a distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 sivua
...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 the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 sivua
...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:...distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it ; cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 566 sivua
...selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and like a wellformed eye, commands a whole horizon,...distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it; cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 sivua
...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...distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority^o the person who possesses it. Cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 sivua
...which may make them succeed. Discretion has large aud extended views, and, like a well-formed ere. commands a whole horizon. Cunning is a kind of short-sightedness,...that discovers the minutest objects which are near at head but is not able to discern things at a distance. Discretion, Ibi more it is discovered, gives... | |
 | 1853 - 756 sivua
...Canning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers tie minutest objects which are near at hand, bat is not able to discern things at a distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it. Cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
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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 minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. 
