 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...loses its force, and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion...Discretion is only found in men of strong sense, and good understandings: Cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done, hud he passed only lor a plain man. Discretion is the perfection of reason,...a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning it a kind of instinct that only looks out after our immediate interest end welfare. 9. Discretion is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1805 - 288 pages
...have done, h.id be p^fled only for a plain man. Difcretion is-the perfection of reafon ; and aa ui le to us in all the duties of life : cun.ning is a kind of im:in<£r, that only looks out after our immediate intereft and welfare. ;. Difcretion is only found... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 294 pages
...loses its force, and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion is the perfec* tion of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1810 - 488 pages
...loses its force, and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion...Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understandings ; cunning is often to be met widi in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...loses its force, and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion...Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understandings : Cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons •who are but... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...its force, and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have dona, had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion is the perfection of reason ; and a guide tp us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...loses its force, and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have done had he passed only for a plain man. Discretion is the perfection of reason, ancl a guide to us in all the duties of life ; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1811 - 286 pages
...he might have done,4iad he paffed only for a plain ffl-an. Difcretion is the perfection of reafon ; and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of initinft, that only looks out after our immediate intereft and welfare. Difcretion is only found in... | |
 | Felipe Fernandez - Spanish language - 1811 - 242 pages
...agudeza, f. impcrtineacia, looks like weakness. Discretion is the perfection of purecer comojlaqvezu, f. reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; razon, f. . guia, f. - otligaeion, f. and docs not only make a man the master of his own dueno parts,... | |
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare. 
