 | Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 324 страници
...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,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 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. In a great business there is nothing so fatal as cunning management. — Junius. Those... | |
 | A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 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. Cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Charles Philip Brown - 2005 - 1456 страници
...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, bulls not able to discern things — at a distance " ON THE SLIDES OB INFLECTIONS... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1852 - 430 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 : Cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - 1806 - 402 страници
...views, and, like a well formed eye commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind of short-sigh'edness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near...distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses ii ; dinning, 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. 
