Something there is more needful than Expense, And something previous ev'n to Taste — 'tis Sense : Good Sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no Science, fairly worth the seven... Agriculture of Pennsylvania - Página 21por Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...too dear ; 40 Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to tnste — 'tis sense ; Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no BCJencc, fairly worth the ecven : A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Nutre... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1838 - 462 páginas
...what he ne'er can taste .' Something there is more needful than eicpense, And something precious e'en to Taste — 'tis SENSE ! Good sense which only is the gift of Heav'n, And, though no Science, fairly worth the Seven ! Calculation was also an immense assistance... | |
| William Bannerman - 1840 - 136 páginas
...sense, an endowment, according to an eminent author, the parent and guide of every accomplishment. " Good sense, which only is the gift of heaven, And,...though no science, fairly worth the seven. A light within yourself, you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. '' POPE. SIMON GRANT,... | |
| 1843 - 280 páginas
...better level with respect, either to the natural or artificial means of drainage, would be clean and dry Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous even to taste — 'tis sense; • • • * * Tis use alone that sanctifies expense, And splendour borrows all her rays from sense.... | |
| Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 páginas
...speaking of good sense, (which means only a more than ordinary share of common sense,) he calls it " the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven." To speak, accordingly, of appealing from the conclusions of philosophy to common sense, had the appearance,... | |
| 1845 - 408 páginas
...good sense requisite, without which, knowledge and even a high degrce of skill only lead to folly. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no seience, fairly worth the seven. The proposition just made, the reader, we imagine, will allow us to... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 páginas
...understood than descrihed, "common terae." As Pope has it, in one of his admirable couplets : — " Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven . And though no science, fairly worth the >even." 3. Ttmper. By this I do not mean mere sweetness or amiahility of disposition. A country parson... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1850 - 814 páginas
...of a well-balanced mind: " Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to taste — 'tis sense, ' Good sense, which only...heaven; And though no science, fairly worth the seven." Without this qualification, a minister of the gospel cannot so manifest the truth as to "commend himself... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1850 - 72 páginas
...and shine with a lustre all his own, in the humble cottage, — in the humblest walk of life. He has sense — Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. A cottage presently shows whether its inmates be of sound mind, or not. Does the man attend to the sound... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 páginas
...which many buy too dear; Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to taste, — tis sense. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heav And though no science, fairly worth the A light, which in yourself you must perc Jones and Le... | |
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