THERE is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion... All the Year Round - Página 350editado por - 1868Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 páginas
...affectionate Friend and Servant. AN ESSAY ON THE FATES OF CLERGYMEN. rp 1 HERE is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech... | |
| John Wilkes - 1805 - 328 páginas
...plac'd within my span, I would not be that thing, a prudent man.' SWIFT very well observes, 'There is no * talent so useful towards rising in the ' world, or which puts men more out of * the reach of fortune, than that quality '* generally possessed by the dullest sort ' of people, and is... | |
| John Wilkes - 1805 - 324 páginas
...plac'd within my span, I would not be that thing, a pruderit man.' SWIFT very well observes, 'There is no ' talent so useful towards rising in the * world, or which puts men more out of * the reach of fortune, than that quality * generally possessed by the dullest sort ' cf people, and is in... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 páginas
...There is no talent so useful to" wards rising in the world, or which puts men more out of M the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by * the dullest sort of people, and is, in common language, called " discretion ; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 554 páginas
...affectionate friend and servant. AN AN ESSAY ON THE FATES OF CLERGYMEN. JL HERE is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in conimoii... | |
| 1810 - 478 páginas
...talent so useful, says Swift, towards rising in the world, or which puts man more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed...common speech called discretion ; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellect, without any other qualifications,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 páginas
...CLERGYMEN. J HERE is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which put* men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed...common speech called discretion ; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 páginas
...CLERGYMEN. T HERE is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed...common speech called discretion ; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 páginas
...affectionate friend and servant. AN ESSAY ON THE FATES OF CLERGYMEN. J HERE is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 páginas
...this particle, as he has made in the following sentence ; Essay on the Fates of Clergymen. ' There is no talent so useful towards rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of people, and is, in common... | |
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