| Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 páginas
...for a man to muse on such things as pass his understanding. Ofttimes, to please fools, wise men err. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign — that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him. Swift. Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
| Benson Bidwell - 1907 - 286 páginas
...Genius. We are sure of Bidwell's right to this title, since Dean Swift, many years ago, wrote : "We might know him by this sign, — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." And Swift was right. We inquire for the genius and are mocked by the HiAa-Crank!" dunces who dub him... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.— Cotton. y has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage d'uuvs are all in confederacy against him. — Swift. Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves... | |
| James Joseph Walsh - 1908 - 458 páginas
...approach to truth that has made the expression one of the oft-quoted passages from his works : ' ' When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign— that all the asses are in confederacy against him." I suppose the Dean himself would have been the first... | |
| Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1910 - 352 páginas
...in proportion to his ideas. In truth, his popularity with women should give pause to his vanity, for when a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in conspiracy against him." " You mean," said Lady Mary, " that genius fails of fame, as the spiritually... | |
| Gustav Wendt - 1911 - 352 páginas
...zur Handhabe: 30. to travel by rail, water, steamer; 31. to work by day (at night), by moonlight. 32. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Swift.) 33. Richard Savage now lived by begging. (Macaulay.) 34. Anne was the second daughter of King... | |
| Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - 1917 - 592 páginas
...mankind, I am ready to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. — Dr. Johnson 2. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Swift. 3. I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls its burial ground ' God's acre.' — Longfellow.... | |
| Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock - 1922 - 632 páginas
...love only individuals, I hate and detest that animal called man. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. The merriest countenances are in mourning-coaches. No wise man ever wished to be younger. A very little... | |
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