 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 страници
...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 shortsigh tedness\ "which discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand', but is not able to... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 страници
...selfish aims, und 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,... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 288 страници
...which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a perfectly-formed eye, commands a whole horizon. Cunning is a kind of...not able to discern things at a distance. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Cunning is a kind of instinct... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 страници
...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 to the person who possesses it. Cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 страници
...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...hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. 5. True and false modesty. Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 страници
...and, like a well-formed eye', commands a whole horizon'. Cunning""^ a kind of shortsightedness', which discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand..., but is not able to discern things at a distance. 3. Discretion', the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it.... | |
 | John Young Sargent - 1873 - 188 страници
...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 to the person who possesses it Cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 страници
...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. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 страници
...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....hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. ADDISON : Spectator, No. 225. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 страници
...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...short-sightedness, that discovers the minutest objects that are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. Discretion, the more it is... | |
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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. 
