A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. The Idler Reformed - 第 231 頁Rose Ellen Temple 著 - 1846完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 頁
...others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. •& The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by shewing its faults ; as when a stream discovers... | |
| Caleb Bingham - 1825 - 234 頁
...manner he may render himself most acceptable to his Cieator, by doing most good to his creatures. 12. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying, in other words, thet he is wiser to day than he was yesterday. 13. Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and... | |
| 1826 - 238 頁
...digging for deep, pure waters ; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you. 12. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. 14. The most unhappy effect of fashionnble politeness is that it teaches us the art of dispensing with... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 頁
...dies in a mind that has received an early tincture-of-it. 2. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong ; which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday. 3. Memory is the purveyor of reason ; the power which places those images... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 頁
...most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskilful, njost mischievous. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday.* Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for... | |
| Caleb Bingham - 1829 - 234 頁
...manner he may render himself most acceptable to his Creator, by doing most good to his creatures. 12. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. 13. Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome digging for deep,... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 頁
...themselves, and put others in pain. — Un demisgavant est plus sat gu'un ignorant. — Zimmerman. CCCCLL A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. — Pope. CCCCL1L By the unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 頁
...themselves, and put others in pain. — Un demisgavant est plus sot qu'un ignorant. — Zimmerman. CCCCLI. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. — Pope. CCCCLII. By the unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in... | |
| 1830 - 288 頁
...there would be as much generosity'4, if he were a rich man ' '. A man should never be ashamed to own'8 he has been in the wrong ; which is but saying in other words '7, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable... | |
| Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 頁
...most acute writers and reasoners very truly observes, that 'a man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.' But what is the passage in the letter to which you advert ?" " Towards the conclusion of his address... | |
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