 | 1778 - 350 頁
...cunning has only private felfifh aims, and tricks at nothing which may make them fuccecd. Difcretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed...eye, commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind of fhort-fightednefs, that difcovers the minuteft objefts which are near at hand, but is not able to difcern... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 頁
...cun*ning has only private felfifh aims, and flicks at nothing which may make them fucceed. Difcretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed...eye, commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind of fhortfightednefs, that difcovers the minuteft objecb which are near at hand, but is not able to difcern... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 頁
...Cunning has only private felfifh aims, and fticks at nothing which may make them fuccced. Difcretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed...eye, commands a whole horizon : Cunning is a kind of fhort-'ightednefs, that difcovers the minuteft ob. jecls that are rear at hand, but is not able to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 頁
...cunning has only private felfifli aims ; and fticks at nothing which may make them fucceed. Difcretion has large and extended views ; and, like a well-formed...eye, commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind of fliort-fightednefs, that difcovers the minuteft objects which ate near at hand, but is not able to... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 頁
...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...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 頁
...private, feififb aims, and flicks at nothing which may make them fucceed. Difcretion has large ,?nd extended views, and like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind of fhort-fightednefs, that difcovers the minuteft object's which are near at hand, but is not able to... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 頁
...master of, 1 look upon cunning to be the accoropli^hment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion 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 maj make iliem... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 頁
...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 methods of attaining them : Cunninghas only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 頁
...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 頁
...has only private, felfifli aims : and flicks at nothing which may make them fucceed. Difiiietionhas large and .extended views ; and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon : tunning is a kind of Ihort-fightednefs, that difcovers the. minuted objefts which are near at hand,... | |
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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... 
