 Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.  Fortune - Page 174by David Trevena Coulton - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...'Tis not enough your counsel still be true : Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; 5/6 That only makes superior... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...'Tis not enough your counsel still be true, Blunt truths more mischief than nice falshoods do : Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...conviction on those whom you may be desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judiciously observes, Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. And in the same poem he afterwards advises us, To speak, tho' sure, with... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...not euuugh your counsel still be true; Blunt truths mure ш.ьсЬн!' than nice falaehooils do : Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as thuigs furgot. Without good-breeding, truth is disapprov'd ; That only in:ik. - .superior... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...T is not enough your counsel still be true, blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do: men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without goocUbreeding truth is disapprov'd, that only makes superior... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...JTis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falshoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Without good-breeding, truth is disapprov'd; That only makes superior sense... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...conviction on those whom you may be desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judiciously observes, Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. And in the same poem he afterwards advises us, To speak, tho' sure, with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...not enough your counsel still be true ; P. I mil truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do : Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without good-breeding truth is disapproved} That only makes superior... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...is not enough your counsel still be true, blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do : men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without good^breeding truth is disapprov'd, that only makes superior... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...'Tis not enough your counsel still be true, Bluut truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do: Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior... | |
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