 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...create opposition, and to defeat most of the purposes for which speech was given to us." Men tnnst be taught as if you taught them not. And things unknown proposed as things forgot. So long as this can be fairly reconciled with sincerity, this advice may be attended to ; but this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...tremendous, with a threatening Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry. fear most to tax an honowaXAe fo<j\. Be niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst...of sense. With mean complacence ne'er betray your Nor be so civil as to prove unjust. Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...positive, persisting fops we know, throw, 164 Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so ; smile, 70 Be niggards of advice on no pretence ; For the worst...sense. With mean complacence, ne'er betray your trust, Nor be so civil, as to prove unjust. Fear not the anger of the wise to raise ; 220 Those best can bear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...you with pleasure own your errors past, 870 And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief...things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapproved ; 576 That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of advice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...with pleasure, own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tie not enough ow back the hair! And thrice they twitch'd the diamond...near. : Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought forgou Without good breeding truth is disapproved: That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards... | |
 | Silas Jones - Phrenology - 1836 - 362 pages
...induced to leave it off because it involved him in difficulties. He then adopted the maxim of Pope : " Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot." Secretiveness was certainly sufficiently active to give a balance to his character, but never manifested... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 564 pages
...you had but for once remembered and observed the counsel of that wise poet, Pope, where he says, " Be niggards of advice on no pretence ; For the worst avarice is that of sense." In the constitution of our government and in that of one more, there still remains a particular thing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...you, with pleasure own your erroi*« past, And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis 7iot enough r helps the ambitious hill yen taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding, truth is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 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 proposed as things forgot , And in the same poem he afterwards advises us, To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence. He... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...seldom expect to please your hearers, or obtain the concurrence you desire. Pope judiciously observes " Men must be taught, as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as tilings forgot." He also recommends it to us "To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence." And... | |
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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. 
