 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...things forgot. Without Good-Breeding, truth is disapprov'd; That only makes superior sense belov'd. 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 ; Those best can bear reproof,... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...devices of a rhetorician. The " popularity " of a sermon implies the observance of the old rule : " Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot." * Applying the term "popular" in this scientific sense, as comprehending not merely the agreeableness... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - Book industries and trade - 1845 - 234 pages
...SWIFT. TO THE CRITIC. — You who seek to give and merit Fame, And justly bear a Critic's noble nameBe niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst avarice...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 ; They best can bear reproof,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...always, when you doubt your sense, And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence." — I. 366, 7. "Be niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst avarice is that of sense." — I. 578, 9. " Strain out the last dull dropping of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...you with pleasure own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief...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... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...expect to please your hearers, or to obtain the concurrence you desire. Pope judiciously observes — " Men must be taught, as if you taught them not ; And things unknown, proposed as things forgot" He also recommends it to us — " To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence." 3* CHAPTER III.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...you, with pleasure own your errors past, 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 ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of advice... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1849 - 450 pages
...originality, if they wish to employ their talents to the best advantage in the service of mankind. " Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot." t In the observations which I have hitherto made upon emulation, I have proceeded on the supposition,... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...opinions, and persuade men into measures, that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting." Men must be taught, as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Franklin early obtained that dominion over his appetite which is so important a step in moral discipline.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...a critique on the hst. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true : Blunt truths more mischief lhau nice falsehoods do; Men must be taught, as if you...things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good bre-ding truth is disapproved: That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of advice on uo... | |
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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. 
