 | 1803 - 442 頁
...underagent of Providence, to guide and direct us in the ordinary concerns of life. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is...discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to ail the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 頁
...under-agent of Providence, to guide and direct us in the ordinary concerns of life. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is...them. Without it, learning is pedantry ; and wit, impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810 - 488 頁
...acting agreeable to the difference of things. " There are," says Addison, No. 225 Spect. u many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is...of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness : the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 頁
...under-agent of Providence, to guide and direct us in the ordinary concerns of life. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is...of them. Without it learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 頁
...ordinary concerns of life. There are many more shining qualities in the * Eccles. \i. 9. xxvli. 17. mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion...of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 頁
...indiscretion of the person v?ho confided in him. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of maffi but there is none so useful as discretion. It is this,...of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence, virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 頁
...ordinary concerns of life. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none st> useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives...of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1811 - 286 頁
...none- fo ufeful as difcretion. It is this, indeed,, which gives a value to all the reft ; which fets them at work in their proper times' and places ; and turns them to the advantage of the perfon who is pofielTed of them. Without if,. learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itfelf... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 頁
...of the friend, rather than the indiscretion of the person who confided in him. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is...of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looto like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be Discretion... | |
 | George Fulton - 1814 - 452 頁
...certain indica'tion of a great spirit, and impudence — the affectation of it." " There are many more shin'ing qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so use'ful— as discretion." " Health — is so necessary to all the du'ties— as well as the pleas'ures of life, that the crime1... | |
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the... 
