Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side xi
... ourselves , if we wish for mercy from others ; since for one great genius who has written a little book , we have a thousand little geniuses , who have written great books . A volume , therefore , that contains more words than ideas ...
... ourselves , if we wish for mercy from others ; since for one great genius who has written a little book , we have a thousand little geniuses , who have written great books . A volume , therefore , that contains more words than ideas ...
Side xiv
... ourselves , a knowledge of others is built upon the sand . On this subject , however , nothing is more easy than to talk plausibly , and few things more difficult than to write profoundly ; thoroughly to succeed , requires far more ...
... ourselves , a knowledge of others is built upon the sand . On this subject , however , nothing is more easy than to talk plausibly , and few things more difficult than to write profoundly ; thoroughly to succeed , requires far more ...
Side 25
... ourselves . Sir Richard Steele has observed , that there is this difference between the church of Rome and the church of England : the one professes to be infallible - the other to be never in the wrong . Such high pretensions are ...
... ourselves . Sir Richard Steele has observed , that there is this difference between the church of Rome and the church of England : the one professes to be infallible - the other to be never in the wrong . Such high pretensions are ...
Side 26
... ourselves , our prosperity in others . Sir Robert Walpole observed , it was fortunate that few men could be prime ministers , because it was for- tunate that few men could know the abandoned profligacy of the human mind . Therefore a ...
... ourselves , our prosperity in others . Sir Robert Walpole observed , it was fortunate that few men could be prime ministers , because it was for- tunate that few men could know the abandoned profligacy of the human mind . Therefore a ...
Side 36
... ourselves . None are so fond of secrets , as those who do not mean to keep them ; such persons covet secrets , as a spendthrift covets money , for the purpose of circulation . That knowledge , which a man may acquire only by travelling ...
... ourselves . None are so fond of secrets , as those who do not mean to keep them ; such persons covet secrets , as a spendthrift covets money , for the purpose of circulation . That knowledge , which a man may acquire only by travelling ...
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