 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 страници
...cunning is a kind ^-."'liK shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects, which. T^fcre tifcar at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. ectator. 10, Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing ore .contemptible than the false.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 страници
...views; and, like fl well formed eye, commands a -whole horizon : cunning is a kind of short sightedness, that discovers the minutest objects •which are near...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 Buck - 1815 - 546 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...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 great authority... | |
 | John Rippingham - 1816 - 190 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...which are near at hand, but is not able to discern tl&ngs at a distance. Descrelion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 страници
...aims; and sticks at nothing' which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views; ami, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, which discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 страници
...large and extended views, and like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ; cunning is a kinfl ef shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects,...hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. Spectator. 10. Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.... | |
 | 1817 - 206 страници
...well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ; cunning is a kind of shortV sightedness, tlmt discover the minutest objects, which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and most elegant of all compliments ; for it often... | |
 | Rufus W. Adams - 1818 - 322 страници
...l and, likp a. well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ;S cunning is a kind of short sightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near...hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. 13. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a great authority 6 6 Society, s company, fraternity.... | |
 | George Crabb - 1818 - 1000 страници
...of bojs). WALSH. Cunning is a kind of short-slghtednen that /f&corer* the minutest objects which arc near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a <litance. ADOISOII. There Apamemnon. Priam here he *pie», And flcrco A.liil I.--, who both kings .(.-!i<~.... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 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...hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. Sjtectatar. 10. Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.... | |
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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. 
