 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...last. '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. Without good-breeding, truth is disapproved ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of... | |
 | 318 pages
...silent always when you doubt your sense ' And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence. HOW TO TEACH. Men must be taught as if you taught them not,. And things unk no wn proposed as things forgot. EDUCATION. 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...enough your counsel still he true : Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must he taught, as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good hreeding truth is disapproved: That only makes superior sense heloved. Be niggards of... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapproved ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...your counsel shall be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Men must be taught aa if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding, truth is disapproved ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Truth needs no... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...express yourself fixed in your present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your...if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed aa things forgot." lie also recommends it to us " To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence."... | |
 | David Trevena Coulton - 1853 - 334 pages
...not enough your counsel still be true — Blunt truths more mischiefs than nice falsehoods do; These must be taught as if you taught them not, ° And things unknown, proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding, truth is disapproved, That only makes superior sense beloved. POPE. THE barouche... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 pages
...be found in his Essay on Man, or in such of his early verses as the following— Men must be tanght as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Poetry, like the material world, has undergone a great revolution since the days of Pope. There is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...conviction on those whom you may be desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judiciously observes. Mea must be taught as if you taught them not. And things unknown proposM as things forgot. And in the same poem he afterwards advises us, , To speak though sure, with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...express yourself fixed in your present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your...observes " Men must be taught, as if you taught them not, Aud things unknown proposed as things forgot." He also recommends it to us " To speak, though sure,... | |
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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. 
