| John Wilson - 1856 - 364 pages
...of more various truth than all the records of our race. (Rule, § I.) Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps as few know their own strength. (Rule, § n.) He is a better man who wisely speaks than he who talks at random. (Remark d.)... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...and scarcely leave a back where it found an edge. — Citlton. DCCCIV. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...loves best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
| William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...the un-natural man must comparatively be more so, and the pr -(eter --natural superlatively most so. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, few know their own strength. It is in men, as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - Cooperation - 1867 - 70 pages
...explains the secular inspiration of these educational schemes. It is this:—"Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometime:) there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
| John Wilson - English language - 1871 - 364 pages
...of tnore various truth than all the records of our race. (Rule, § I.) Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps as few know their own strength. (Rule, § n.) He is a better man who wisely speaks than he who talks at random. ( Remark... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning ? Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| 1872 - 692 pages
...will be taken up about present things, as ours are now. — Dean Swift. ALTHOUGH men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Although men are accused for 92p g ϕ i ,$, dA V strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...my desire, — possunt quia posse videntur. — LORD BACON to JAMES I. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
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