 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 str.
...contrast more distinctly. EXAMPLES. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing that may make them succeed. Discretion, has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 str.
...discretion the most useful talent that a man can be master of, 1 look upon cunning to be the accoropli^hment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points...and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of obtaining them : cunning has only private -selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which maj make iliem... | |
 | 1803 - 400 str.
...his particular station of life. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon: cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 576 str.
...in his station of life, At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent that a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : Cunninghas only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 str.
...perfection, and but a common share "others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life. tion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of obtaining them : cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 316 str.
...his particular station of life. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private seltish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 str.
...contrast more distinctEXAMTLES. At the same time that 1 think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...and, like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon i Cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers the minutest objects that are near at hand,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 304 str.
...his particular station of life. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of obtaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810
...active to his own prejudice. " Discretion is a very different thing from cunning; cunning is only an accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends fto us, and pursues the most proIper and laudable methods of atDIS 235 DIS laming them ; cunning has... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 str.
...pleases in his station of life. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them sueceed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon... | |
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At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable... 
