 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...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...ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : cunning, has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing that may... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 pages
...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...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 maj... | |
 | 1803 - 402 pages
...in 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...ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...pleases 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...ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : Cunninghas only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pages
...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... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...the 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...ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...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...ends to us ; and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them ; cunning has only private, selfish aims ; and sticks at nothing which may... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunr.ing to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous...ends to us ; and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : cunning has only private selfish aims ; and sticks at nothing which may... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...steady and perpetual serenity. II. At the same time that 1 think discretion the most useful talent a nun can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment...ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them ; cunning has only private, selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may... | |
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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... 
